{
  "id": 1680675,
  "title": "The Bing Side Door: 87% of ChatGPT's Citations Match Bing's Top 10",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/the-bing-side-door-87-of-chatgpts-citations-match-bings-top-10",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-18T09:11:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/achiya-automation/the-bing-side-door-87-of-chatgpts-citations-match-bings-top-10-168c"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In the article, it is revealed that Bing's web crawler, bingbot, reads and accesses a site's pages four times more frequently than Google's crawler, Googlebot. This significant difference in crawling frequency is highlighted by the fact that bingbot made 4,488 hits on the site over 36 days, while Googlebot only made 1,073 hits during the same period. Furthermore, research by Seer Interactive found that 87% of citations used by ChatGPT matched Bing's top 10 organic results for a given query, compared to only 56% for Google's top 10. This suggests that Bing's search results hold more value for AI-assisted content generation than Google's. The article advises website owners to not overlook Bing's crawler and to optimize their content accordingly, as it could be a significant yet underutilized growth channel.",
  "summary": "Two days ago I published a census of every AI crawler that hit my site over 34 days . The headline was that ChatGPT now fetches my pages for live users more often than Googlebot crawls them. This post is about the number in that dataset I couldn't stop thinking about — the one that isn't ChatGPT at all. It's bingbot. The ratio nobody is optimizing for Fresh numbers from this morning's run (36…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}