AzureAI-SearchBot is an AI search crawler that fetches web pages to ground AI-powered search and retrieval answers. Its operator is not documented: the user agent carries no operator URL, the AzureAI token appears in no Microsoft crawler documentation, and public bot registries list the operator as unclear, so attribution to Microsoft is unconfirmed. The user agent also resembles a truncated copy of the published bingbot template with the documentation link removed. No reverse-DNS or IP verification method is published, so the user agent alone is not proof of origin.

At a glance

Operator: unknown
Type: AI Search
RSL category: ai-input

How Centinel checks it

User agent: The request calls itself this crawler. Anyone can send the same string.

AzureAI-SearchBot publishes nothing Centinel can check a source against, so a match reports the name and leaves the source unconfirmed. The match tokens, verification domains, and address feeds are not published here.

Allowing or blocking it

The crawler object in the /validate response sets access_allowed to true only for a verified source that your tenant allowlists. A policy rule can allow or block this crawler by its category, AI Search.

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