• Fabrice Canel announced he is retiring from Microsoft, effective July 1, after nearly 30 years.
• He wrote that he decided to take Microsoft’s Voluntary Retirement Program after nearly three decades leading Bing’s indexing work.
• His departure removes one of Bing’s most visible contacts for the SEO and webmaster community.

Fabrice Canel, the Principal Product Manager who led Bing’s crawling and indexing team and championed IndexNow, has announced his retirement from Microsoft.