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AdIdxBot

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Microsoft advertising crawler that indexes pages for ad relevance and quality scoring.

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Assessment
Advertising & Marketing
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources

Identification

Bot name
AdIdxBot
Category
Advertising & Marketing
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
User-agent patterns
adidxbotAdIdxBot
User-agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534+ (KHTML, like Gecko) BingPreview/1.0b

IP ranges

Requests from AdIdxBot originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.

Showing 24 of 28 ranges

Block or allow AdIdxBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for adidxbot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block AdIdxBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: adidxbot
Disallow: /

# Allow AdIdxBot full access
User-agent: adidxbot
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows adidxbot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

Traffic & trends

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From the community

Recent Reddit discussion mentioning this bot.

Links & references

Operator documentation
www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0
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Data sources

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Last updated September 8, 2026

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