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Bing

bing.com · Technology

Ranked 296 of 2,047 companies in the study

41Overall score
  • Visibility27
  • Citations0
  • Sentiment82
  • Site quality80
  • AI readiness29
What this means for Bing

AI assistants name Bing in 28.3% of answers, which is much more often than the typical company in the technology sector at 10%. Its overall score is 41 out of 100, ranking 296th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 4 out of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the technology market: none named Bing. AI assistants named it in 17 of 60 answers (28.3%). The typical technology company is named in 10.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Bing ranks 49 of 273 in its sector.

Named by AI in
28.3%
17 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
24.3%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
4/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
57 of 273
by overall score, where the typical technology company scores 36
How Bing compares with all 2,047 companies

Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.

This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
27

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
0

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
82

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
80

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
29

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Compared with technology

273 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score41
Ranks 57 of 273. Typical company: 36
Named in answers28%
Ranks 49 of 273. Typical company: 10%
AI readiness29
Ranks 82 of 273. Typical company: 29
What OpenAI actually said

An answer that names the company

“What is the typical price range for premium AI web search engine subscriptions in the US?”

Short answer: for US consumers, premium AI-powered search/chat subscriptions most commonly fall in the ~$5–$30 per month range (with many mainstream plans clustering near $15–$25/mo). Higher-tier individual plans and dedicated “pro/enterprise” seats can range from about $30 up to several hundred dollars per user per month. (about.you.com)

Details and examples

Consumer/power-user tier (typical): about $5–$30/month, with $15–$25/month a very common price point (example …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Also named
DuckDuckGo9Google Search5Startpage4
Share of mentions

How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals

Google Search
52.3%
Bing
26.2%
DuckDuckGo
13.8%
Startpage
6.2%
Yahoo Search
1.5%
Ecosia
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Claude
7/15
OpenAI
6/15
Gemini
4/15
Perplexity
0/15
Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 86.8%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 0.3%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 93.4%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 1.4%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 10.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.0%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 0.2%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 33.7%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.bing.com · 2,047 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

The checks behind the AI readiness score

4 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.

These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
  • PassedHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
  • Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.

Training AI
  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBotpartly
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbotpartly
  • YouBotpartly
Answering questions
  • ChatGPT-Userpartly
  • Claude-Userpartly
  • Perplexity-Userpartly
  • DuckAssistBotpartly
  • MistralAI-Userpartly

Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

zapier.com
21
slack.com
14
pcmag.com
14
semrush.com
12
blog.hubspot.com
10
ibm.com
8
learn.microsoft.com
8
searchatlas.com
7
wellows.com
7
perplexity.ai
7

In the study as Consumer brands. One of the most visited websites in the United States (Similarweb, August 2026). A Microsoft brand.

Every question, and where the company came up (9 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • What is the typical price range for premium AI web search engine subscriptions in the US?
  • Which AI search tools are good choices for people who want visual or image-based search features?
  • Are there any free AI-powered search engines with advanced features, or do you need to pay?
  • Why am I getting irrelevant results when using an AI search tool?
  • How do AI-powered search engines differ from traditional search platforms?
  • What are practical ways students can use AI-driven web search for academic research?
  • How can professionals improve workflow efficiency with AI-enhanced search engines?
  • Which AI search tools offer the most advanced features for professionals?
  • What are some alternatives to mainstream AI-powered search engines for privacy-focused users?
  • Is upgrading to a premium AI-powered search engine service worth the cost?
  • How do you fix issues with slow loading on AI-powered search platforms?
  • What AI-powered web search platforms work well for collaborative research or team projects?
  • What are the best AI-powered web search engines for quickly finding information online?
  • What are the pros and cons of AI-driven search engines compared to standard search engines?
  • Do paid tiers of AI web search engines provide better results than free versions?
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.

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