Bingbot crawling emails in O365

Question

We were doing a phishing test across our organization and saw several "clicks" from IPs related to Bingbot crawler. I always thought Microsoft Search within O365 is separate from Bing Search, so there should be no reason why Bingbot should crawl emails.&nbsp;Does anyone know if the Bingbot crawls emails in Office 365?&nbsp;

vasilmichev · Answer

There is a "Microsoft search in Bing" feature: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/microsoft-search-bing

suheilkarkera · Answer

I have seen that. But this feature has been around for a while. The Bingbot IPs have recently started showing up. Also, Microsoft Search in Bing doesn't return emails in the search results which makes me believe that emails are not crawled.

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Bingbot crawling emails in O365