# Handling Bingbot

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-bingbot/84659
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 5, 2018, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-bingbot/84659 "2018-04-05T17:51:37Z")
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### Author: ![anon23393886](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@anon23393886](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon23393886)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-bingbot/84659/30 "2020-11-20T16:51:47Z")

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> [@schungx](#):
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> If you want china sites then Baidu is fine. But if you want non Chinese non China sites with info that is not five years and two generations out of date you really need Bing…

Worry no more! Two years later, things have been resolved.

> [@Bingbot is (no longer) default throttled](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bingbot-is-default-throttled/84620/25):
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> Fabrice, we tested this on a few sites and crawling behavior appears a lot more reasonable. After this is merged the default throttle will be removed. [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11035](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11035)

I’m glad that this case has finally come to a close. As a result, I think that it would be most appropriate to close this topic or merge it with the one I linked above.

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