|Name |Operator |Respects `robots.txt` |Data use |Visit regularity |Description | |----------------|---------|-----------------------|----------|------------------|-------------| | AdsBot-Google | Google | Yes (Exceptions for Dynamic Search Ads) | Analyzes website content for ad relevancy, improves ad serving for Google Ads. Data anonymized according to [Google's Privacy Policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy). Unclear on data retention or use by other products. | Varies depending on campaign activity and website updates. Crawls optimized to minimize impact, specific frequency not public. | Web crawler by Google Ads to analyze websites for ad effectiveness and ensure ad relevancy to webpage content. | |Amazonbot | Amazon | Yes | Service improvement and enabling answers for Alexa users. | No information provided. | Includes references to crawled website when surfacing answers via Alexa; does not clearly outline other uses. | |anthropic-ai | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. | |Applebot | Apple | Yes | Indexes sites to provide answers and search results for Siri users. | Irregular and may be prompted by user queries. | Used to answer queries from users; may included references to the indexed site. | |AwarioRssBot | | | | | | |AwarioSmartBot | | | | | | |Bytespider | ByteDance | No | LLM training. | Unclear at this time. | Downloads data to train LLMS, including ChatGPT competitors. | |CCBot | [Common Crawl](https://commoncrawl.org) | [Yes](https://commoncrawl.org/ccbot) | Provides crawl data for an open source repository that has been used to train LLMs. | Unclear at this time. | Sources data that is made openly available and is used to train AI models. | |ChatGPT-User | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | Yes | Takes action based on user prompts. | Only when prompted by a user. | Used by plugins in ChatGPT to answer queries based on user input. | |ClaudeBot | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. | |Claude-Web | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. | |cohere-ai | [Cohere](https://cohere.com) | Unclear at this time. | Retrieves data to provide responses to user-initiated prompts. | Takes action based on user prompts. | Retrieves data based on user prompts. | |DataForSeoBot | | | | | | |Diffbot | | | | | | |FacebookBot | | | | | | |Google-Extended| | | | | | |GoogleOther | | | | | | |GPTBot | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | Yes | Scrapes data to train OpenAI's products. | No information provided. | Data is used to train current and future models, removed paywalled data, PII and data that violates the company's policies. | | img2dataset | | | | | | |ImagesiftBot | | | | | | |magpie-crawler | | | | | | |Meltwater | | | | | | |omgili | | | | | | |omgilibot | | | | | | |peer39_crawler| | | | | | |peer39_crawler/1.0| | | | | | |PerplexityBot | [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/) | [Yes](https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/perplexitybot) | Used to answer queries at the request of users. | Takes action based on user prompts. | Operated by Perplexity to obtain results in response to user queries. | |PiplBot | | | | | | |scoop.it | | | | | | |Seekr | | | | | | |YouBot | | | | | |