GEO / AI Search

OAI-SearchBot

Definition

What is OAI-SearchBot?

OpenAI's dedicated search-grounding crawler. Separate from GPTBot (which collects training data), OAI-SearchBot reads pages in real time when a ChatGPT user asks something that requires live information.

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GPTBotOpenAI's web crawler used to populate ChatGPT's training data and live citations. Identified by the User-Agent string GPTBot/1.0. Sites that block it via robots.txt are excluded from ChatGPT-generated answers.

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