{
  "claim": {
    "id": 122,
    "entity_id": 13,
    "slug": "bingbot/honours_crawl_delay",
    "field": "honours_crawl_delay",
    "value": "yes",
    "statement": "Microsoft states that a crawl-delay directive in robots.txt always takes precedence over Bing Webmaster Tools crawl control settings for Bingbot.",
    "evidence_url": "https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/crawl-control-55a30303",
    "evidence_quote": "\"If we find a crawl-delay directive in your robots.txt file, then it will always take precedence over the information from this feature.\"",
    "method": "vendor_doc",
    "verified_at": "2026-09-14",
    "confidence": "high",
    "status": "current",
    "supersedes_id": null,
    "created_at": "2026-09-14T00:32:17Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-14T00:32:17Z",
    "evidence_date": null
  },
  "entity": {
    "id": 13,
    "slug": "bingbot",
    "vendor": "Microsoft",
    "name": "Bingbot",
    "kind": "crawler",
    "purpose": "search",
    "ua_token": "bingbot",
    "ua_pattern": "bingbot",
    "robots_token": "bingbot",
    "ip_list_url": "https://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingbot.json",
    "docs_url": "https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0",
    "first_documented": "2026-09-13",
    "first_seen_here": null,
    "last_seen_here": null,
    "status": "active",
    "notes": "Crawls the web for Bing Search and, per Microsoft, feeds Copilot and Bing Chat surfaces. Microsoft documents a separate opt-out from generative-AI training use via the noarchive robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header rather than a distinct Copilot user agent; no Copilot-specific crawler token is named in Microsoft's public documentation as of 2026-09-13.",
    "created_at": "2026-09-13T00:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-13T00:00:00Z"
  },
  "notes": []
}