Fabrice Canel from Microsoft posted on X this week that BingBot turned 14 years old. Yea, 14 years of crawling the web. Fabrice wrote, “Happy 14th Birthday, BingBot! You’ve been crawling 🕷️ the web and bringing us the best search results for over a decade. Next year promises even more innovation and excellence! Time to … Read more
Fabrice Canel from Microsoft announced that BingBot now fully supports Brotli compression and will soon be testing zstd Zstandard compression, a lossless data compression, for its crawler. Fabrice Canel wrote on X, “Bingbot now supports Brotli compression for all URLs after a successful ramp-up to 100%!” Microsoft began testing support for BingBot Brotli compression a … Read more
Bingbot is now rolling out Brotli compression for its web crawler, Bingbot. Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said on X that Bing “enabled it on a small percentage of URLs crawled each day, and we’ll gradually increase traffic throughout this spring.” As a reminder, Google supported Brotli compression for BingBot since at least 2020. This website … Read more
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