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Microsoft: 12,050,061 search crawler reads｜The platform that currently provides AI answer citation numbers
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Microsoft: 12,050,061 search crawler reads Finding: the platform that currently provides AI answer citation numbers; Copilot cited 31,711 times. The Microsoft (Bing, Copilot) path: from S1 to S10 2026/3/3–10/8 · site-wide counted from 2/12 S1 Prepare S2 Crawl S3 Train S4 Index S5 Ask AI S6 AI Mention S7 AI Answer S8 Act S9 Visit S10 Return S1 Prepare Our website 196,702,526 Site requests · 2/12–10/8 S2 Crawl Bing search crawler 12,050,061 3/3–10/8 · requests S3 Train Training use Tracking S4 Index Bing search crawler 12,050,061 Requests ~375,000 pages indexed S5 Ask Real-time retrieval Tracking S6 Mention Bing impressions 910,622 impressions (search) S9 Visit MicrosoftOrganic Traffic 20,053 visits · separate log Numbers at different steps come from different records; requests, pages, impressions, citations, and Organic Traffic are each read in their own units. ID EO Microsoft requests Search crawler 12,050,061 Builds search index Also serves AI Overviews Same batch of requests Counted once Total 12,050,061 From search platform Indexed About 375,000 pages Search impressions 910,622 times Search clicks 32,052 times Click-through rate 3.52% Organic Traffic (separate) Microsoft brings 20,053 visits All sources 309,826 visits Organic Traffic and search clicks each read in its own unit Answers visible; actions and returns still tracked S7 Copilot answer citations 31,711 times S8 Act Tracking S10 Return Tracking Three records, one segment each Website requests Daily crawler request log Search platforms Indexing, impressions, clicks Answer monitoring Citation counts visible Weekly search click-through rate (search clicks ÷ search impressions) Bing search platform · data available 7/21–10/6 · weeks start Monday Higher Lower 7/20 8/3 8/17 8/31 9/14 9/28 10/5 Same period 32,052 search clicks 910,622 search impressions Overall click-through rate 3.52% Sources: crawler requests from the approved list; site-wide, indexing, Organic Traffic, and answer citations from approved figures. Search impressions, clicks, and the weekly curve use the daily data available from the search platform, ending 10/6; the answer citation period is 7/22–10/8. Bing indexing is the September snapshot; answer citations and search clicks are counted separately, and platform actions and return visits are still being tracked.
How to read Compare with Figure 3-4 (Google), and note Microsoft's AI answer citation volume and its reporting period.