Funnelback
GoodBotVerifiedBOTFunnelback is an enterprise search platform, and its crawler indexes content from an organization's websites and data repositories. This powers the organization's internal search function. Operated by Squiz - FunnelBack.
What is Funnelback?
Funnelback is a web crawler operated by Squiz - FunnelBack. Funnelback is an enterprise search platform, and its crawler indexes content from an organization's websites and data repositories. This powers the organization's internal search function. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.
Identification
FunnelbackWhy it crawls your site
Funnelback crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by Squiz - FunnelBack 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 Funnelback
Add a Disallow rule for Funnelback 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 Funnelback from crawling your entire site User-agent: Funnelback Disallow: / # Allow Funnelback full access User-agent: Funnelback Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Funnelback. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Squiz - FunnelBack's documentation.
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