Search engine crawlers

Search engine bots play a crucial role in indexing your website and driving organic traffic, but not all crawlers behave the same way. Some are legitimate and beneficial, while others can cause excessive server load or crawl your site in ways that hurt performance. To help you manage them effectively, we’ve gathered key details about the most common search engine bots—how they work, why they matter, and how to control their access to your site.

All Search engine crawlers

Bot Name	Operator
Applebot	Apple Inc.
Applebot-Extended	Apple Inc.
Baidu	Baidu, Inc.
bingbot	Microsoft Corporation
Bytespider	ByteDance Ltd.
DeepSeek	DeepSeek
Google-Extended	Google
YandexBot	Yandex LLC