Rattlesnakes By Mail

Claim 100

OAI-SearchBot surfaces crawled websites as links in ChatGPT search answers.

entity
OAI-SearchBot
field
cites_sources
value
yes
statement
OAI-SearchBot surfaces crawled websites as links in ChatGPT search answers.
evidence_url
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots
evidence_quote
"OAI-SearchBot is used to surface websites in search results in ChatGPT's search features. Sites that are opted out of OAI-SearchBot will not be shown in ChatGPT search answers, though can still appear as navigational links."
method
vendor_doc
verified_at
2026-09-13
confidence
medium
status
current
supersedes
none

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