# Claim 122

Microsoft states that a crawl-delay directive in robots.txt always takes precedence over Bing Webmaster Tools crawl control settings for Bingbot.

entity: Bingbot
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: none

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