Original observations about AI crawler access, prompt sampling, citations, and answer surfaces—published with the method, dataset, and limitations required to interpret them.
We tested n=4 AI crawlers against live robots.txt and public crawler-control files. All were allowed with HTTP 200—technical access only, not indexing or recommendation proof.
5 min · 2026-07-30
We tested n=4 AI crawlers against live robots.txt and public crawler-control files. All were allowed with HTTP 200—technical access only, not indexing or recommendation proof.
Open research ↗5 min · 2026-07-30
This research note defines the observation pipeline, parsing rules, and limitations behind MentionPop weekly GEO and Studio reporting.
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