# Know your bots

GPTBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot (Common Crawl). Blocking them = invisibility. Most analytics can’t even see them — which is why bot-level detection (like Robauto’s tracking pixel) is the first instrument to install.

Canonical: https://robauto.ai/learn/ai-search-aeo/11

_AI Search (AEO/GEO): Get Found by Machines That Answer — lesson 11 of 20 (DEFINITION)_

GPTBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot (Common Crawl). Blocking them = invisibility. Most analytics can’t even see them — which is why bot-level detection (like Robauto’s tracking pixel) is the first instrument to install.

Source: [OpenAI / Anthropic crawler docs](https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots?utm_source=robauto)

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