WordPress Blocks Bingbot by Default (opens in new tab)

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Apparently due to concerns with AI bot crawling, and the fact that Bingbot is currently undifferentiated from AI, Wordpress now blocks Bing (and DuckDuckGo, perhaps others) from indexing public blogs that aren’t Business plan or above.

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