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AI Search

Name: AI Search
Author: Cloudflare

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Cloudflare AI Search is a managed service that lets you connect your data and easily build AI-powered search. Operated by Cloudflare.

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AI Search

What is AI Search?

Cloudflare AI Search is a crawler operated by Cloudflare to gather data for its AI-driven search capabilities. The bot identifies itself clearly via its user-agent string. It is designed to systematically explore and index web content, enabling Cloudflare to provide more accurate and relevant search results to its users.

Helpful — Indexes web content to improve search functionality.

Identification

Bot name

AI Search

Operator

Cloudflare

Why it crawls your site

Cloudflare AI Search crawls the web to build a comprehensive index of online content, which is then used to train and refine its AI search algorithms. By analyzing the structure and content of web pages, the bot helps Cloudflare understand the relationships between different pieces of information and improve the overall quality of its search results. Website owners can verify Cloudflare's ownership of the bot through their published bot list and by confirming the user-agent string.

Block or allow AI Search

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Cloudflare-AI-Search in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block AI Search from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Cloudflare-AI-Search
Disallow: /

# Allow AI Search full access
User-agent: Cloudflare-AI-Search
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Cloudflare-AI-Search. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Cloudflare's documentation.