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GPTBot is not OAI-SearchBot
OpenAI publishes more than one token. GPTBot is for training-style crawl. OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User are retrieval: search indexing and user-triggered fetches. Disallowing GPTBot does not automatically close ChatGPT search or user fetches. Treat them as separate decisions in robots.txt.
Google-Extended is a control token, not a crawler
Google-Extended is a robots control token for Gemini / Vertex training use of content. It is not an HTTP crawler like Googlebot. Blocking or allowing Google-Extended does not move regular Google Search ranking or crawl by itself. Same idea for other “Extended” control tokens: they are policy knobs, not browser-style agents.
CDN “block AI” often closes both
A CDN or WAF toggle labeled “block AI crawlers” frequently returns 403 to both training and retrieval user-agents, even when robots.txt still says Allow for some tokens. The file and the edge can disagree. The only way to see that split is to request the homepage as those UAs — which is what GeoPack’s live probes do.
llms.txt does not move Google Search
/llms.txt is a voluntary map for tools that choose to read it. Google has said it does not affect Google Search or AI Overviews. Publishing one can still be useful documentation for other agents; it is not an access-control file and it is not a ranking lever.
Two public snapshots (16 Aug 2026 CT)
open site
Cloudflare
16 Aug 2026, 4:00 PM CT. Training 7/7 allow · retrieval 6/6 allow · 32/33 probes reached. They also publish llms.txt.
blocked / split
The New York Times
16 Aug 2026, 4:03 PM CT. Training 0/7 allow · retrieval 2/6 allow (Amazonbot + Googlebot) · 6/33 probes reached, most 403.
Point-in-time technical snapshots from our CLI pack. Not endorsements. Not case studies with promised outcomes.
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