Glossary

OAI-SearchBot

Ortwin Oberhauser
Definition

The OAI-SearchBot is a program developed by OpenAI that crawls websites to retrieve information for ChatGPT searches. You can use your robots.txt file to specify whether this crawler is allowed to visit your website. The OAI-SearchBot is not the same as GPTBot, which OpenAI uses to train its AI models. If you allow the OAI-SearchBot, your content may be included in ChatGPT search results. However, this does not guarantee that your content will be mentioned or recommended.

Written by

Ortwin Oberhauser

Co-Founder, CTO, and Digital Visibility Strategist