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PerplexityBot is associated with broad crawling and index refreshes, while Perplexity-User is associated with user-triggered retrieval; official documentation confirms separate identifiers but does not prove every fresh-fetch responsibility.
AI crawlers are automated clients whose roles vary across training, search indexing, user-triggered retrieval, and product control; user-agent strings, robots.txt, logs, and IP checks provide useful but limited evidence.