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PanguBot

PanguBot crawls web content used to train Huawei's Pangu family of large language models.
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What is PanguBot?

PanguBot is Huawei's AI crawler. PanguBot crawls web content used to train Huawei's Pangu family of large language models.

PanguBot matters for AI visibility because the pages it collects can shape what large language models learn about your brand, products, and expertise. Allowing it can strengthen how accurately AI systems describe and recommend you, while disallowing it keeps your content out of training data. Either way, knowing PanguBot visits is the first step to managing how your brand shows up in AI search.

Tracking which AI crawlers and agents reach your site, and what they do once there, is the foundation of generative engine optimization. See our guides to AI crawlers and robots.txt to control automated access and protect your AI search visibility.

Want to see every AI bot hitting your site? Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic, so you can watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and others crawl your pages and connect those visits to real citations and revenue. Learn more in AI crawler logs.

See every AI bot hitting your site

Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic. Watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and more crawl your pages in real time, see exactly what they take, and connect every crawl to the citations and revenue it drives.

How to handle PanguBot

If you do not want PanguBot using your content for AI training, disallow it in robots.txt. If you are comfortable contributing to AI systems, leave it allowed.

To control PanguBot, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /

Because PanguBot performs user-initiated or real-time fetches, it may not always honor robots.txt, so confirm its behavior by watching your access logs.

Examples

  • A publisher reviews server logs, sees PanguBot requesting long-form articles, and decides whether to allow or disallow it in robots.txt.
  • A site owner adds a Disallow rule for PanguBot to keep premium guides out of AI training datasets.

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Frequently asked questions about PanguBot

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PanguBot is operated by Huawei. It functions as Huawei's AI crawler.

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