Claude-SearchBot

Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User are the pair that determine whether Claude can find you and represent you correctly at answer time, which makes them the two Anthropic bots a customer-seeking business should be most careful never to block. Anthropic's own documentation spells out the cost in both directions: block the search bot and your visibility drops; block it and the accuracy of what Claude says about you can degrade too, because the engine falls back on older or second-hand sources. That accuracy angle is easy to underestimate: being described wrongly, old prices, discontinued services, a predecessor company's reputation, is often worse than being absent. Both bots are controlled by their own user agent tokens in robots.txt, so auditing your file takes minutes: confirm ClaudeBot reflects your training preference, and confirm Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User are allowed unless you have a genuinely good reason otherwise.