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We checked 740 of the world's top websites for AI bots. Most that block GPTBot also block ChatGPT search

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Originally published on pagelens.io . Most advice about AI search starts with "check your robots.txt". I wanted to know what the biggest sites actually do, so I ran an AI visibility check on the top 1,500 domains of the Tranco list (list 4672X), a research ranking of the most visited domains, on Oc…

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  1. 2026-10-12 08:27 · DEV Community — AI
    We checked 740 of the world's top websites for AI bots. Most that block GPTBot also block ChatGPT search

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