Fabrice Canel
Retired search executive, formerly Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing
Background
Fabrice Canel led crawling, processing and indexing at Microsoft Bing and oversaw Bing Webmaster Tools, championing the IndexNow protocol. Originally from France, they retired from Microsoft effective 1 July 2026 after nearly three decades, and were for many years Bing's most visible contact for the webmaster community.
Known for: Leading Bing crawling and indexing, and championing IndexNow
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