More than 100 million records were stolen from an insecure server. If you’ve used Bing on your mobile phone to search for sensitive information, you may need to reconsider doing so from now on. A huge leak from the Bing app allows a hacker to see everything a user searches for.
With this recent leak, Bing users need to be aware that their data may now be in malicious hands. It’s now more important than ever to use a search engine that respects user privacy and doesn’t log your searches.
If the user searches Bing while at home, it tips off the hacker to where they live. The hacker can then use the search times and terms to work out when the victim’s home will be empty, then burgle it. With this recent leak, Bing users need to be aware that their data may now be in malicious hands.
Does bing crawl?
Once Bing knows your sitemap, Bing will crawl it regularly – no need to submit it again except in case of a major site change. Bing supports several sitemap formats including XML, RSS, m. RSS, and Atom 1.0, and a simple text file. Use consistent URLs. Bing will only crawl the URLs exactly as listed.
This of course begs the query “Which crawlers does Bing use?”
– Bing Webmaster Tools Bing operates five main crawlers today: Bingbot is our standard crawler and handles most of our crawling needs each day. Bingbot uses a couple of different user agent strings. We are committing to regularly update our web page rendering engine to the most recent stable version of Microsoft Edge.
Crawl efficiency is the number of useful crawls (including: new pages, updated content, updated links, etc.) divided by the total number of crawls. Bing engineers’ bonuses will be tied to these numbers. Bing’s new blog series on maximizing crawl efficiency. Bing will be diving into how its team is improving its crawler.
What is the fastest way to get results from Bing crawler?
The fastest way to get results is by using the free Bing Webmaster Tools website, which causes the Bing crawler to visit your website almost immediately. Open the Bing Webmaster Tools page (link in Resources), and then sign in using your exisiting Microsft account email address and password.
How can I prevent bingbot from crawling my site?
Avoid using a rel=canonical tag in place of a proper redirect when site content has moved from one location to another. Let Bing crawl more: The Webmaster Tools crawl control feature allows you to manage how Bingbot crawls your content, including when, and at what pace.