Gigabot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTGigablast is the only non-Big Tech search engine in the U.S. that uses its own search index and algorithms. Operated by Gigablast.
What is Gigabot?
Gigabot is a web crawler operated by Gigablast. Gigablast is the only non-Big Tech search engine in the U.S. that uses its own search index and algorithms. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.
Identification
GigabotHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- google ignoring robots.txt ? - Google Search Central Community
- 20 Common Robots.txt Issues (and How to Avoid Them) - seoClarity
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- Do you respect robots.txt? - Hacker News
- How Google Interprets the robots.txt Specification
Why it crawls your site
Gigabot crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by Gigablast as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
Block or allow Gigabot
Add a Disallow rule for Gigabot 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 Gigabot from crawling your entire site User-agent: Gigabot Disallow: / # Allow Gigabot full access User-agent: Gigabot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Gigabot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Gigablast's documentation.
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