searchbot, activate search mode and enter into the search field the following search term, and then search for it, displaying the resultant search results according to S.Ea.R.C.H protocols
May 23, 2026 at 2:52 AM
searchbot, activate search mode and enter into the search field the following search term, and then search for it, displaying the resultant search results according to S.Ea.R.C.H protocols
Well, that was an easy blocking decision.
July 24, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Well, that was an easy blocking decision.
Meanwhile, the Google Searchbot is now up to 91% of traffic to small indie news sites
In Oct. 2024, hits from Google’s searchbot jumped from single-digits to at least 60% of page traffic on 25 Very Large Media Sites
In Oct. 2024, hits from Google’s searchbot jumped from single-digits to at least 60% of page traffic on 25 Very Large Media Sites
January 16, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Meanwhile, the Google Searchbot is now up to 91% of traffic to small indie news sites
In Oct. 2024, hits from Google’s searchbot jumped from single-digits to at least 60% of page traffic on 25 Very Large Media Sites
In Oct. 2024, hits from Google’s searchbot jumped from single-digits to at least 60% of page traffic on 25 Very Large Media Sites
The thing that drives OpenAI search is called OAI-SearchBot
May 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The thing that drives OpenAI search is called OAI-SearchBot
Ah, Search Engine Land, now with fully AI-generated content written by SearchBot (which was trained on SEL content)
I wonder if all contributors of SEL know that SearchBot is training on their writing? Oof.
searchengineland.com/guides/robot...
I wonder if all contributors of SEL know that SearchBot is training on their writing? Oof.
searchengineland.com/guides/robot...
October 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Ah, Search Engine Land, now with fully AI-generated content written by SearchBot (which was trained on SEL content)
I wonder if all contributors of SEL know that SearchBot is training on their writing? Oof.
searchengineland.com/guides/robot...
I wonder if all contributors of SEL know that SearchBot is training on their writing? Oof.
searchengineland.com/guides/robot...
I don’t know if we have artificial general intelligence but we definitely have artificial general searchbot.
August 20, 2026 at 4:12 AM
I don’t know if we have artificial general intelligence but we definitely have artificial general searchbot.
the "ChatGPT"-only useragent is unique in this behavior compared to other UAs i've seen ("ChatGPT-User/1.0" / "OAI-SearchBot" / "GPTBot", etc..)
March 22, 2026 at 6:48 AM
the "ChatGPT"-only useragent is unique in this behavior compared to other UAs i've seen ("ChatGPT-User/1.0" / "OAI-SearchBot" / "GPTBot", etc..)
Side thought — the anthroporphization of LLMs as chatbots violates the user experience design best practice that software should refer to itself in the third person in interface copy:
“SearchBot found 17 instances”
not
“I found 17 instances”
“SearchBot found 17 instances”
not
“I found 17 instances”
I have a partial answer to this that I've been ruminating on from both a humanist and a UX-professional side for the last year. I believe that it's the same fundamental fallacy that led to the common citation of the Turing test as "proof" of artificial intelligence. Humans are almost hardwired to
July 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Side thought — the anthroporphization of LLMs as chatbots violates the user experience design best practice that software should refer to itself in the third person in interface copy:
“SearchBot found 17 instances”
not
“I found 17 instances”
“SearchBot found 17 instances”
not
“I found 17 instances”
Semrush commented on my LinkedIn post about the AI-generated content on SEL via SearchBot. Why are they commenting and not someone from SEL?? Oh boy -> "We're proud of what we built and what it's helping us to produce." www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
October 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Semrush commented on my LinkedIn post about the AI-generated content on SEL via SearchBot. Why are they commenting and not someone from SEL?? Oh boy -> "We're proud of what we built and what it's helping us to produce." www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
There's a number of ways AI is making the internet worse but this is the first time since the early 2010s that internet searching has been *good*, like actually good.
Try any searchbot of your choice but I'm pretty content with Perplexity's free, no-account-required modified version of ChatGPT 3.
Try any searchbot of your choice but I'm pretty content with Perplexity's free, no-account-required modified version of ChatGPT 3.
May 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
There's a number of ways AI is making the internet worse but this is the first time since the early 2010s that internet searching has been *good*, like actually good.
Try any searchbot of your choice but I'm pretty content with Perplexity's free, no-account-required modified version of ChatGPT 3.
Try any searchbot of your choice but I'm pretty content with Perplexity's free, no-account-required modified version of ChatGPT 3.
The rise of the AI crawler 🤖 and their JS Rendering Capabilities - An insightful analysis from @vercel , showing:
* None of the major AI crawlers currently render JavaScript: OpenAI (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, GPTBot), Anthropic (ClaudeBot), Meta (Meta-ExternalAgent), ...
* None of the major AI crawlers currently render JavaScript: OpenAI (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, GPTBot), Anthropic (ClaudeBot), Meta (Meta-ExternalAgent), ...
December 18, 2024 at 3:38 PM
The rise of the AI crawler 🤖 and their JS Rendering Capabilities - An insightful analysis from @vercel , showing:
* None of the major AI crawlers currently render JavaScript: OpenAI (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, GPTBot), Anthropic (ClaudeBot), Meta (Meta-ExternalAgent), ...
* None of the major AI crawlers currently render JavaScript: OpenAI (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, GPTBot), Anthropic (ClaudeBot), Meta (Meta-ExternalAgent), ...
they have to burn the coal to make the electricity to power the AI to run the searchbot to tell you how long to sear the pork chop
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
they have to burn the coal to make the electricity to power the AI to run the searchbot to tell you how long to sear the pork chop
today Claude really wants to know more about my book for some reason
August 26, 2026 at 12:27 AM
today Claude really wants to know more about my book for some reason
thanks searchbot <3
April 19, 2026 at 8:20 PM
thanks searchbot <3
without using any of the SEO-friendly/searchbot-accessible terms that get me put on blocklists and falsely accused of being bigoted... fucking amen on this point
But I have to be honest: it upsets me how much of what trans femmes call “transmisogyny” is just rebranded anti-Black misogyny that has been called out by Black women for centuries—but White feminism is so out of touch with Black women’s experiences they can claim it as something new for themselves.
August 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
without using any of the SEO-friendly/searchbot-accessible terms that get me put on blocklists and falsely accused of being bigoted... fucking amen on this point
OpenAI rompe con uno de los estándares de la web 😮💨: su crawler de peticiones de usuario hará caso omiso de lo que ponga en el fichero robots.txt de una web. Ahí es donde se indica si dejamos entrar a los bots de buscadores y de motores de IAg. Aunque no se permita, lo harán ppc.land/openai-revis...
OpenAI revises ChatGPT crawler documentation with significant policy changes
OpenAI modified technical specifications for ChatGPT-User crawler, removing robots.txt compliance language and clarifying OAI-SearchBot usage no longer includes training data collection.
ppc.land
December 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
OpenAI rompe con uno de los estándares de la web 😮💨: su crawler de peticiones de usuario hará caso omiso de lo que ponga en el fichero robots.txt de una web. Ahí es donde se indica si dejamos entrar a los bots de buscadores y de motores de IAg. Aunque no se permita, lo harán ppc.land/openai-revis...
OpenAI updated its ChatGPT crawler / bot OAI-SearchBot www.seroundtable.com/openai-chatg... via Pieter Serraris
#chatgpt #openai #bot
#chatgpt #openai #bot
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
OpenAI updated its ChatGPT crawler / bot OAI-SearchBot www.seroundtable.com/openai-chatg... via Pieter Serraris
#chatgpt #openai #bot
#chatgpt #openai #bot
Blocked GPTBot but allowed OAI-SearchBot? They're different gates. One affects training data, the other affects whether you're cited TODAY. Full breakdown: https://myaiplay.github.io/ai-visibility-hub/articles/ai-crawler-robots-txt-guide/
September 26, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Blocked GPTBot but allowed OAI-SearchBot? They're different gates. One affects training data, the other affects whether you're cited TODAY. Full breakdown: https://myaiplay.github.io/ai-visibility-hub/articles/ai-crawler-robots-txt-guide/
Hi!! everyone, New member here. Im developing a multi-source search bot for resource bot running on Telegram. Full bot access link inside my profile bio. #searchbot #utilitytool
June 4, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Hi!! everyone, New member here. Im developing a multi-source search bot for resource bot running on Telegram. Full bot access link inside my profile bio. #searchbot #utilitytool
18:17:30, 34.81.209.247, all 404s
/.codex/config.toml ... Slackbot-LinkExpanding/1.0
/actuator/mappings ... ChatGPT-User/1.0
/graphql/console ... GrokBot/1.0
/.hermes/.env ... facebookexternalhit/1.1
/.claude/settings.json ... TelegramBot/1.0
/login ... Amzn-SearchBot/1.0
Get. In. The. Sea.
/.codex/config.toml ... Slackbot-LinkExpanding/1.0
/actuator/mappings ... ChatGPT-User/1.0
/graphql/console ... GrokBot/1.0
/.hermes/.env ... facebookexternalhit/1.1
/.claude/settings.json ... TelegramBot/1.0
/login ... Amzn-SearchBot/1.0
Get. In. The. Sea.
August 29, 2026 at 5:23 PM
18:17:30, 34.81.209.247, all 404s
/.codex/config.toml ... Slackbot-LinkExpanding/1.0
/actuator/mappings ... ChatGPT-User/1.0
/graphql/console ... GrokBot/1.0
/.hermes/.env ... facebookexternalhit/1.1
/.claude/settings.json ... TelegramBot/1.0
/login ... Amzn-SearchBot/1.0
Get. In. The. Sea.
/.codex/config.toml ... Slackbot-LinkExpanding/1.0
/actuator/mappings ... ChatGPT-User/1.0
/graphql/console ... GrokBot/1.0
/.hermes/.env ... facebookexternalhit/1.1
/.claude/settings.json ... TelegramBot/1.0
/login ... Amzn-SearchBot/1.0
Get. In. The. Sea.
And it's mandatory for me to use the new AI searchbot.
Which pulls answers from our existing documentation.
You know, the same databases I searched thoroughly and didn't contain the answers.
🤦♀️Corporate America is a joke.
Which pulls answers from our existing documentation.
You know, the same databases I searched thoroughly and didn't contain the answers.
🤦♀️Corporate America is a joke.
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
And it's mandatory for me to use the new AI searchbot.
Which pulls answers from our existing documentation.
You know, the same databases I searched thoroughly and didn't contain the answers.
🤦♀️Corporate America is a joke.
Which pulls answers from our existing documentation.
You know, the same databases I searched thoroughly and didn't contain the answers.
🤦♀️Corporate America is a joke.
The Hooverville Hexagon: Through the Looking-Glass and What Nighthoover Found There.A satirical look at modern life for this Sunday's adventure. Words from Douglas Adams & a perspicacious searchbot. Consumer update, plus sights & sounds of Hooverville. hoovervillehexagon.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...
The Hooverville Hexagon: Through the Looking-Glass and What Nighthoover Found There
For those of you who don't know Hooverville, we've got some updated glimpses. Come on: it's Sunday afternoon. You need a break from real...
hoovervillehexagon.blogspot.com
September 26, 2026 at 11:08 PM
The Hooverville Hexagon: Through the Looking-Glass and What Nighthoover Found There.A satirical look at modern life for this Sunday's adventure. Words from Douglas Adams & a perspicacious searchbot. Consumer update, plus sights & sounds of Hooverville. hoovervillehexagon.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...
For context, they still scrape my servers even though my robots.txt very explicitly disallows their user agents (including other AI scrapers).
Oh well, go go gadget fail2ban
Oh well, go go gadget fail2ban
June 22, 2026 at 6:16 PM
For context, they still scrape my servers even though my robots.txt very explicitly disallows their user agents (including other AI scrapers).
Oh well, go go gadget fail2ban
Oh well, go go gadget fail2ban
The user agent strings every SEO and site owner needs right now #SEO #WebDevelopment #UserAgent #DigitalMarketing #AI
The user agent strings every SEO and site owner needs right now
A technical reference for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Bingbot - the exact user agent strings shaping how AI crawls the web in 2026.
ppc.land
June 28, 2026 at 8:54 AM
The user agent strings every SEO and site owner needs right now #SEO #WebDevelopment #UserAgent #DigitalMarketing #AI