Cloudflare and OpenAI: making AI discovery better for everyone
Optimizing your site for AI is of little use if AI can't find it.
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Key points
- The answer to someone's question may already be on your website: the installation guide you spent a week writing, or a first-hand account of using a product, with the details that make the difference for whether they buy it.
- Cloudflare and OpenAI launched a research pilot in July 2026 with those interests in mind.
- So far, the answer is a resounding yes: the pilot has brought previously unknown pages into OpenAI’s search index, giving ChatGPT more sources to draw on to help people find relevant, timely information.
- Cloudflare's network provides signals that can help OpenAI’s search crawler discover more useful pages across the web to surface to ChatGPT users.
Sources (1)
- [1]Cloudflare and OpenAI: making AI discovery better for everyoneCloudflare Blog: AI · Oct 15, 01:00 PM
Optimizing your site for AI is of little use if AI can't find it.
The answer to someone's question may already be on your website: the installation guide you spent a week writing, or a first-hand account of using a product, with the details that make the difference for whether they buy it.
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