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Gigabot

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Gigablast is the only non-Big Tech search engine in the U.S. that uses its own search index and algorithms. Operated by Gigablast.

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Assessment
Search Engine Crawler
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

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.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name
Gigabot
Operator
Gigablast
Category
Search Engine Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
gigabot
User-agent patterns
Gigabot
User-agent string
Gigabot
Main use cases
Web page indexingSearch result rankingContent discoverySitemap processing

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

Block it

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: /
Allow & verify

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

Traffic & trends

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated July 21, 2026