# Claim 121

Bingbot honors robots.txt directives and other Microsoft-supported control mechanisms that content owners set for crawling.

entity: Bingbot
field: respects_robots_txt
value: yes
statement: Bingbot honors robots.txt directives and other Microsoft-supported control mechanisms that content owners set for crawling.
evidence_url: https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/ai-performance-9f8e7d6c
evidence_quote: "Bing respects all content owner preferences expressed through robots.txt and other supported control mechanisms."
method: vendor_doc
verified_at: 2026-09-14
confidence: high
status: current
supersedes: none

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