A site can rank in Google while GPTBot cannot read it
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A page that ranks in Google is not necessarily readable by GPTBot or ClaudeBot. Your robots.txt can allow one crawler and reject another, and JavaScript-only copy can leave a fetcher staring at an empty shell. That means an assistant can name a competitor with a worse product simply because it has…
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- 2026-09-11 05:36 · DEV Community — AI
A site can rank in Google while GPTBot cannot read it