PerplexityBot
Term from the world of AI visibility – explained simply by the GeoStars team.
Perplexity's crawler that indexes pages for answer search. For fetches triggered directly by a user request, Perplexity additionally uses Perplexity-User.
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What PerplexityBot does
Perplexity answers almost every question with live sources and displays them numbered. For a page to be cited there, it has to be in the index – which PerplexityBot builds. According to Perplexity, it is not used to collect content for training AI foundation models.
What you should pay attention to
If you block PerplexityBot, Perplexity can barely use your page as a source. Perplexity-User fetches pages on behalf of a user; according to Perplexity, robots.txt rules generally don't apply to such fetches. GeoStars measures Perplexity in the extended class, every three days by default.
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