Bing Preview

BingPreview

User-agent strings are identity signals, not proof of identity. Confirm the source and behavior before trusting a request.

Verification method: Verify Bing Preview by matching `BingPreview` to Microsoft evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.

Bing Preview traffic is primarily detected by the `BingPreview` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows Phone 8.1; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; NOKIA; Lumia 530) like Gecko BingPreview/1.0b`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534+ (KHTML, like Gecko) BingPreview/1.0b Mozilla/5.0 (Windows Phone 8.1; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; NOKIA; Lumia 530) like Gecko BingPreview/1.0b`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Microsoft infrastructure before trusting the traffic.

Use this record as identity context. Verify the request source, behavior, and relevance to your site before allowing or restricting traffic.

Bing Preview is used for public web data collection, page extraction, content monitoring, and third-party crawler activity.

Aliases

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows Phone 8.1; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; Rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; NOKIA; Lumia 530) Like Gecko BingPreview/1.0b

Type

scraper

Operator

Microsoft

Family

Microsoft

Kind

Preview

Purpose

Scraping

Identity

Verified Bot

Detection confidence

High

Spoofing risk

Bing Preview Has Medium Spoofing Risk Because The User Agent Can Be Copied, Even When The Bot Has Strong Source Or Documentation Support.

Status

Active

Respects robots.txt

Yes

Last verified

2026 06 23

User-agent: BingPreview
Disallow: /

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