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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.

allow
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow:
block
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

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