As a reminder, since April, Bing has been slowly testing a new BingBot person agent, slowly rolling it out to extra percentages of crawls over the 12 months. It ought to have rolled out to 100% of all crawls final month. However now Fabrice Canel mentioned this week that it’s close to 100%, and an announcement is coming someday right now from Microsoft.
Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing wrote on Twitter, “We’re close to 100% and are proactively monitoring and rolling again any web site having points. Keep tuned for extra communication Friday.”
Initially, Bing mentioned it will be rolled out by Fall 2022, then January 2023. Possibly right now is the day?
Right here has been the rollout thus far:
- April 2022: Lower than 5% of crawls
- July 2022: 5% of all crawls
- September 2022: 20% of all crawls
- October 2022: 50% of all crawls
- February 2023: New 100% of all crawls
Let’s have a look at what Fabrice pronounces right now.
Discussion board dialogue at Twitter.
Replace: Confirmed, it’s absolutely stay in keeping with Fabrice on LinkedIn.
Sure @rustybrick 💯% right now (we fallback to earlier person brokers the place acceptable). Extra data on Bing Crawler Person Brokers: https://t.co/n0ILIEUz0I https://t.co/49ILtJDuL0
— Fabrice Canel (@facan) February 3, 2023
