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AndiBot

Andi Search's AI-powered crawler providing direct conversational answers.

Operated by Andi

What is AndiBot?

AndiBot is the web crawler for Andi, an AI-powered search engine that provides conversational, direct answers to user queries instead of traditional search result links. Andi aims to be a friendlier, more intuitive search experience.

The crawler indexes content that Andi uses to generate its AI-powered direct answers. When an Andi user asks a question, the platform synthesizes information from indexed pages and presents a conversational response with citations.

Andi represents the growing category of conversational search engines that prioritize AI-generated answers over link lists. While its market share is small, it serves as an indicator of where search technology is heading.

User-Agent Strings

These are the known user-agent patterns used by AndiBot. Use them to identify this crawler in your server logs or configure robots.txt rules.

Andibot
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robots.txt example:

User-agent: Andibot
Disallow: /private/
Allow: /

How to Manage AndiBot

1

Allow AndiBot for visibility in Andi's conversational search results.

2

Minimal crawl volume — negligible bandwidth impact.

3

Good for understanding emerging AI search consumption patterns.

4

Use Switch to monitor along with other AI search crawlers.

How to block AndiBot

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