Bing just found Genymotion: 1,556 BingBot requests and what it means
This week, BingBot made 1,556 requests to rozz.genymotion.com—more than any other bot, including ChatGPT-User. We were watching ChatGPT. The citation numbers had been growing fast: 42 in January, 345 the first week of February, 1,077 the week after. We expected this week to be another ChatGPT chapter. Instead, BingBot showed up at a scale we hadn’t seen before. 1,556 requests in 7 days—more than GPTBot (129), more than ByteSpider (1,225), more than ChatGPT-User citations (1,329). What started as a ChatGPT story is now happening across six platforms.
Key Findings
- BingBot: 1,556 requests (Feb 17–24), the largest single bot category this week
- ChatGPT-User citations: 1,329, up from 1,077 the prior week (+23%)
- Total LLM bot requests: 3,188
- Six platforms now crawling the mirror site: OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, Meta, ByteDance, Perplexity
The Data
All bots (Feb 17–24, 2026)
| Bot | Requests | Purpose | Platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| BingBot | 1,556 | Search index | Microsoft |
| ChatGPT-User | 1,329 | Live citations | OpenAI |
| ByteSpider | 1,225 | Training | ByteDance |
| CCBot | 382 | Training | Common Crawl |
| OpenAI GPTBot | 129 | Training | OpenAI |
| OpenAI SearchBot | 75 | Search index | OpenAI |
| ClaudeBot | 21 | Training | Anthropic |
| PerplexityBot | 14 | Search index | Perplexity |
| Meta AI | 13 | Training | Meta |
| Total | 3,188 | — | — |
ChatGPT-User citation growth
| Period | Citations |
|---|---|
| Jan 3 – Feb 2 (30 days) | 42 |
| Feb 2–9 (7 days) | 345 |
| Feb 10–17 (7 days) | 1,077 |
| Feb 17–24 (7 days) | 1,329 |
What BingBot is and why its crawl matters
BingBot feeds three Microsoft AI products: Copilot (the AI assistant in Windows 11 and Microsoft 365), Bing AI (the search experience in Edge), and Azure OpenAI, which enterprise customers use to run hosted GPT models against a live web index.
When BingBot indexes a page, that content enters the retrieval layer for all three. So 1,556 requests is the same training-to-citation pipeline we’ve been watching with OpenAI, now starting over at Microsoft scale: training → indexing → live citation.
The requests were spread across all 7 days and covered both Q&A pages and GEO content pages. We don’t yet have a Copilot-User equivalent that would confirm live citations the way ChatGPT-User does for OpenAI. But based on what we saw with OpenAI, we’d expect Copilot citations to start showing up around mid-March.
What’s being cited
The questions getting cited are consistent week over week: system requirements, macOS compatibility, pricing, Play Store setup, how to download the free version. These are the questions someone asks when they’re deciding whether to use the product, not after they’ve already signed up.
| Top cited Q&A pages | Bots |
|---|---|
| What are the system requirements? | ChatGPT-User, ByteSpider |
| How do I download Genymotion Desktop and what are the system requirements? | ChatGPT-User, ByteSpider |
| Does the emulator work with the latest macOS? | ChatGPT-User, ByteSpider |
| What pricing plans are available? | ChatGPT-User, ByteSpider |
| Is Genymotion free to use? | ChatGPT-User |
| How can I enable Google Play Store on Genymotion? | ChatGPT-User |
The two that haven’t followed through: ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot
Not everything is growing. Two bots in the table above, ClaudeBot (21 requests) and PerplexityBot (14), are genuinely puzzling.
ClaudeBot had a real crawl on February 3. It went through roughly 60 pages and Q&As in one session—a burst pattern similar to what we saw with GPTBot in January. Then it stopped. Since then: robots.txt and the homepage, every few days, nothing else. No follow-up content crawl, no Q&A deep dive, nothing resembling the secondary and tertiary waves we saw from GPTBot on January 18–19 and January 25–26. Three weeks of waiting. No return.
PerplexityBot is even lighter. It’s been visiting since early February, but only 1–4 pages per session and always the same small set: a rooting guide, the Android 16 beta post, the SaaS product page, the system requirements page. It hasn’t tried the Q&A index, hasn’t touched llms.txt, hasn’t done anything that looks like systematic indexing. Total: 14 requests this week, 30 over 60 days.
What we’re testing next: The content on the mirror site is the same content that GPTBot and BingBot found worthwhile—Q&A pages are Schema.org-marked, the llms.txt file is there, the sitemap is clean. ClaudeBot read the page, found 60 pieces of content worth crawling, and then apparently decided it had seen enough. We plan to make llms-full.txt more prominent at the root of the website and report back.
What to watch for next
Three weeks after GPTBot’s mass crawl in January, ChatGPT-User citations started appearing. BingBot just ran a similar mass crawl. If the same timeline holds, Copilot citations should start showing up around March 10–17.
That would mean two independent citation pipelines running from the same content—OpenAI and Microsoft—built on the same mirror site infrastructure. One architecture, two platforms citing. We’ll report back when we see it.
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→ Data source: CloudFront access logs for rozz.genymotion.com, February 17–24, 2026. Bot classification based on User-Agent strings.