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  2. Microsoft Bing - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Bing, commonly referred to as Bing, is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service traces its roots back to Microsoft's earlier search engines, including MSN Search, Windows Live Search, and Live Search. Bing offers a broad spectrum of search services, encompassing web, video, image, and map search products, all ...

  3. Bing Webmaster Tools - Wikipedia

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    Bing Webmaster Tools (previously the Bing Webmaster Center) is a free service as part of Microsoft 's Bing search engine which allows webmasters to add their websites to the Bing index crawler, see their site's performance in Bing (clicks, impressions) and a lot more. The service also offers tools for webmasters to troubleshoot the crawling and ...

  4. Web crawler - Wikipedia

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    Web crawler. A Web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web and that is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing (web spidering). [1]

  5. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! will get to keep 88% of the revenue from all search ad sales on its site for the first five years of the deal, and have the right to sell adverts on some Microsoft sites. Yahoo! Search will still maintain its own user interface, but will eventually feature "Powered by Bing™" branding. [49] [50] All Yahoo! Search global customers and ...

  6. Comparison of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of web search engines. Web search engines are listed in tables below for comparison purposes. The first table lists the company behind the engine, volume and ad support and identifies the nature of the software being used as free software or proprietary software. The second and third table lists internet privacy aspects along with ...

  7. robots.txt - Wikipedia

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    robots.txt is the filename used for implementing the Robots Exclusion Protocol, a standard used by websites to indicate to visiting web crawlers and other web robots which portions of the website they are allowed to visit. The standard, developed in 1994, relies on voluntary compliance. Malicious bots can use the file as a directory of which ...

  8. Bingbot - Wikipedia

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    Type. Web crawler. Website. Bingbot FAQ. Bingbot is a web-crawling robot (type of internet bot), deployed by Microsoft October 2010 to supply Bing. [1] It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Bing (search engine). It performs the same as Google 's Googlebot.

  9. Search engine - Wikipedia

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    They can either submit one web page at a time, or they can submit the entire site using a sitemap, but it is normally only necessary to submit the home page of a web site as search engines are able to crawl a well designed website. There are two remaining reasons to submit a web site or web page to a search engine: to add an entirely new web ...