Cloudflare and OpenAI pilot network signals to help ChatGPT search find new pages
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Cloudflare and OpenAI share early results from a research pilot, launched in July 2026, that uses signals from about 1% of Cloudflare's network to help ChatGPT's search crawler discover new web pages.
Cloudflare says the pilot has enabled OpenAI to discover and index hundreds of millions of new pages.
Cloudflare says its filtering and change signals keep the crawler away from nonexistent or redirected pages, reducing unnecessary load on site owners. Cloudflare states the research uses metadata about the web for search and discovery, not page content for model training.
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AICloudflare and OpenAI launched a research pilot in July 2026 using signals from about 1% of Cloudflare's network to help ChatGPT's search crawler find new pages. The pilot has enabled OpenAI to discover and index hundreds of millions of new web pages. Cloudflare says its filtering and change signals keep crawlers away from nonexistent or redirected pages and reduce unnecessary load on site owners.
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