AI Crawlers vs Googlebot: The Allow-or-Block Decision Deck

Should we just block every AI bot? That question lands in our inbox weekly, and the honest answer needs more than a robots.txt snippet. This deck lays out the job-by-job framework: training crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot, search-index bots like... More

Should we just block every AI bot? That question lands in our inbox weekly, and the honest answer needs more than a robots.txt snippet. This deck lays out the job-by-job framework: training crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot, search-index bots like OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot, and user-triggered fetchers that act for a live person — each gets its own rule, because AI crawlers differ by what they do, not whose logo they wear. https://en.speedyindex.com/ Less