AI crawlers explained: which bots to block, which to allow
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Originally published on CheckSEO . The short answer AI crawlers are the bots AI companies send to read web pages, and they do three different jobs. Training crawlers such as OpenAI's GPTBot and Anthropic's ClaudeBot collect content for future models. Search crawlers such as OAI-SearchBot, Claude-Se…
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- 2026-10-14 15:08 · DEV Community — AI
AI crawlers explained: which bots to block, which to allow