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Cloudflare's AI block names eight crawlers. None is ChatGPT's search bot

Eight user agents, and the one that decides whether ChatGPT cites you is not among them. An r/SEO post from April, 53 points and 40 comments, says Cloudflare quietly cut the author's site off from ChatGPT, from Perplexity and from Google's AI Overviews. I went and read the block. It names ChatGPT's training crawler and not its search crawler, and it never mentions Perplexity at all. The Google agent it does name is one Google says does not affec…
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thenichesitelab.com broke the news on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
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