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xAI-SearchBot

Operated by xAI · AI answers

xAI-SearchBot is tracked as a user-triggered fetcher from xAI.

When xAI-SearchBot shows up in your logs

A person asked Grok something and xAI opened your page live.

User-triggered fetches, when an assistant opens a page to answer a person directly.

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: xAI-SearchBot
Disallow:
block
User-agent: xAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

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