AI Search Glossary
PerplexityBot
PerplexityBot is the web crawler operated by Perplexity AI. It indexes web content to power Perplexity's AI-generated answers, which always include visible source citations.
In detail
Perplexity AI cites the web pages it uses in every answer. This means sites allowed by PerplexityBot can receive visible backlinks in AI answers. PerplexityBot uses the user-agent "PerplexityBot" and follows robots.txt rules. It crawls both in advance (for indexing) and in real time (for fresh results).
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