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Applebot vs Bingbot

Applebot and Bingbot compared on 13 documented fields, from 22 claims, last verified 2026-09-15.

FieldApplebotBingbotComparison
cites_sourcesyesyessame
fallback_to_googlebot_rulesyesnot documenteddifferent
follows_noarchivenot documentedyesdifferent
honours_crawl_delaynoyesdifferent
observed_paths_fetchedrobots_txt_and_home_onlynot documenteddifferent
opt_out_mechanismnot documentedyesdifferent
publishes_ip_listyesyessame
purpose_documentedmixedyesdifferent
reads_llms_txtnot_documentednot_documentedsame
respects_robots_txtyesyessame
separate_search_and_training_tokenspartialnodifferent
user_agent_string_fullMozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)different
verifiable_by_rdnsyesyessame

Differences

FieldApplebot statementBingbot statement
fallback_to_googlebot_rulesApplebot follows Googlebot robots.txt instructions when a robots.txt file mentions Googlebot but not Applebot.not documented
follows_noarchivenot documentedBingbot excludes noarchive-tagged content from Copilot and Chat answers and from generative AI training data.
honours_crawl_delayApplebot does not follow the robots.txt Crawl-delay directive.Microsoft states that a crawl-delay directive in robots.txt always takes precedence over Bing Webmaster Tools crawl control settings for Bingbot.
observed_paths_fetchedApplebot made 6 requests to Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, to 2 distinct paths, /robots.txt and the home page. Applebot's 6 requests to Rattlesnakes By Mail run from 2026-09-14T12:22:23Z to 2026-09-14T12:59:26Z and alternate the two paths three times.not documented
opt_out_mechanismnot documentedMicrosoft lets publishers block Bingbot content from Copilot answers and AI training using noarchive and nocache tags.
purpose_documentedApplebot crawls content for Apple search results and for training Apple foundation models.Bingbot serves as Microsoft's standard crawler and handles most of Bing's daily web crawling.
separate_search_and_training_tokensApple uses one crawler token, Applebot, for search crawling and for training crawling, and a second robots.txt token, Applebot-Extended, that opts content out of training use.Microsoft controls Bingbot's use in AI training through meta tags rather than publishing a separate training-specific crawler token.
user_agent_string_fullApplebot sends the desktop user agent string Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot).Bingbot sends a user agent string containing bingbot/2.0 and a link to Microsoft's bingbot.htm page.

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