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PerplexityBot

Perplexity. Crawls so sites can appear and be linked in Perplexity's answers; Perplexity says it does not use it to train AI models. Perplexity's documentation.

19.2%

of 12,650 measured news outlets block PerplexityBot.

Each square ≈ 127 outlets

By continent

Share of each continent's measured outlets blocking PerplexityBot.

Africa1,448
4%
Asia2,045
9%
Europe4,145
27%
Oceania341
21%

By country

Countries with 50 or more outlets measured, from the most blocking to the least.

Largest outlets that block PerplexityBot

By public reach. One cell per crawler.

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endpoints.news · United States
5
nytimes.com · United States
8
t-online.de · Germany
7
theguardian.com · United Kingdom
7
cnn.com · United States
8
forbes.com · United States
8
bbc.com · Brazil
9
bbc.co.uk · United Kingdom
9
reuters.com · United States
9
washingtonpost.com · United States
7
bloomberg.com · United States
9
wsj.com · United States
7
npr.org · United States
7
uol.com.br · Brazil
8
wired.com · United States
8
ft.com · United Kingdom
7
usatoday.com · United States
9
elpais.com · Spain
5
dailymail.co.uk · United Kingdom
9
cnet.com · United States
8
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bild.de · Germany
5
welt.de · Germany
5
apnews.com · United States
6
people.com · United States
8
theverge.com · United States
7
nbcnews.com · United States
9
repubblica.it · Italy
6
elmundo.es · Spain
4
theatlantic.com · United States
8
pbs.org · United States
4
ouest-france.fr · France
9
huffpost.com · United States
9
as.com · Spain
5
bfmtv.com · France
9
marca.com · Spain
4
aftonbladet.se · Sweden
8
nypost.com · United States
8
economist.com · United Kingdom
7
cbc.ca · Canada
3
elconfidencial.com · Spain
9
BlockedAllowed

Largest outlets that let it in

By public reach.

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facebook.com · Australia
3
medium.com · United States
6
globo.com · Brazil
3
espn.com · United States
4
businessinsider.com · United States
3
indiatimes.com · India
1
foxnews.com · United States
0
time.com · United States
0
telegraph.co.uk · United Kingdom
1
techcrunch.com · United States
6
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cbsnews.com · United States
1
lemonde.fr · France
6
independent.co.uk · United Kingdom
0
nikkei.com · Japan
0
ameblo.jp · Japan
0
lefigaro.fr · France
5
focus.de · Germany
6
latimes.com · United States
3
onet.pl · Poland
3