About this bot
Gigabot is the active search crawler associated with Gigablast.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is Gigabot.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with Medium confidence.
robots.txt behavior is not independently asserted beyond the published crawler token.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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Gigabot
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Gigablast
- Purpose
- Indexing
- Common Use
- Search indexing and URL discovery for Gigablast.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- Verified bot
- Evidence Method
- Match `Gigabot` and corroborate the request against current Gigablast-attributed crawler traffic when identity-sensitive handling is required.
- Detection Notes
- The `Gigabot` token identifies the crawler claim; corroborate source/network context for trust-sensitive decisions.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Use server-side controls if restriction is required.