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AI visibility glossary

OAI-SearchBot

In short

The crawler OpenAI uses to find sites to show in ChatGPT search results.

Example

If this bot is blocked, your site is less likely to be shown as a source in ChatGPT answers that use web search.

Where you'll see it in AILens

The AI bot access control (AGT-010) and the bot access table.

It is used for search, not for training. ChatGPT-User, which opens a page at a user's request, is a separate identity.

Often confused with

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