PerplexityBot
Indexes the web for Perplexity's answer engine, which cites and links its sources.
| robots.txt token | PerplexityBot |
| Respects robots.txt | Claims yes; has faced credible reports of undisclosed fetching |
| Verification | Perplexity publishes IP ranges |
| Our recommendation | Your call — Citations send some traffic, but the compliance record has asterisks — verify by network, not by name. |
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