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OAI-SearchBot

OAI-SearchBot is OpenAI's crawler for ChatGPT search. Sites that block it in robots.txt will not appear in ChatGPT search answers as cited sources.

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What OAI-SearchBot means

OpenAI runs several user agents. OAI-SearchBot finds and indexes pages so ChatGPT's search feature can surface and link to them. It is separate from GPTBot, which collects training data: you can allow one and block the other.

robots.txt: allow search, block training
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

OpenAI says robots.txt changes for search take about 24 hours to apply.

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