What Is OAI-SearchBot?

OAI-SearchBot is the crawler OpenAI uses specifically to fetch web pages for ChatGPT's live search feature, the one that returns current results and citations inside a chat answer.

It is a separate crawler from GPTBot, which OpenAI uses to gather training data for its models. A site can allow one and block the other in robots.txt, and many publishers do exactly that.

Blocking OAI-SearchBot means a site cannot appear in ChatGPT's live search citations at all, regardless of content quality, since the crawler never fetches the page in the first place.

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