Profound's Agent Analytics categorizes AI crawler activity into two main types: indexing bots, which systematically crawl websites to build or update AI training datasets, and on-demand retrieval bots, which fetch specific content in real-time to answer user queries. This distinction helps organizations understand the different purposes of AI system visits.
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