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PerplexityBot
Operated by Perplexity · Search indexes
Perplexity's indexing crawler, quietly keeping its answer engine's map of the web current.
When PerplexityBot shows up in your logs
Perplexity is filing your page away so it can pull it into a future answer.
Discovery crawlers that keep a search or answer index fresh.
Allow or block it in robots.txt
A robots.txt entry is a request. Well-behaved crawlers honor it; it is not an enforcement mechanism.
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