AI search crawlers index pages so that AI answer engines can cite and link to them in their responses.
Blocking them removes your pages from those answers, so many sites allow them while blocking training crawlers.
Of the 7 AI search crawlers with a stated policy, 7 follow robots.txt and 0 do not. Bots that ignore robots.txt can only be stopped by user agent or IP at your server, CDN or WAF.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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