How Long Until AI Engines Find Your New Website?

Google says that after you ask it to recrawl URLs, crawling “can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks”. The pages we read from OpenAI, Perplexity and Anthropic give no timing for a new page at all. If you just launched a product and ChatGPT doesn’t know it exists yet, that silence is the honest answer to “how long will it take?”

What each company says

• Google: “Requesting a crawl does not guarantee that inclusion in search results will happen instantly or even at all.” On sitemaps, it says a sitemap “can be very helpful if you just launched your site”.
• OpenAI: OAI-SearchBot is the crawler that surfaces websites in ChatGPT’s search features. OpenAI says each bot’s setting is independent, so you can allow OAI-SearchBot and disallow GPTBot, the crawler it ties to training. It recommends allowing OAI-SearchBot in your robots.txt file and allowing its published IP ranges. A robots.txt change can take about 24 hours to take effect. The page we read mentions no submission process and no crawl schedule.
• Perplexity: PerplexityBot exists to surface and link websites in Perplexity’s results. Changes to robots.txt can take up to 24 hours to show. The page doesn’t say how long a new page takes.
• Anthropic: it runs three bots. ClaudeBot collects content that may contribute to training. Claude-User fetches a page when someone asks Claude a question. Claude-SearchBot improves the quality of search results. Anthropic warns that blocking by IP address may not work reliably, because it stops the bot reading your robots.txt. The article gives no timing.

What happened on our own site

Bevizio launched on 27 September 2026. We submitted a sitemap of the seven site pages to Google Search Console that day, and sent a new one on 29 September once the blog had been added. On 30 September we inspected nine pages. Five were “Submitted and indexed”: the home page, the demo, the free check, the privacy page and our first blog post. That post was crawled on 29 September, the day it went live. Two were “Discovered, currently not indexed” (refunds and the blog index) and two were “unknown to Google” (pricing and terms). All nine are in the current sitemap, which Google last downloaded on 29 September and reported as valid with 14 URLs.

That is one new site, one search engine and a single day’s reading, so it isn’t a benchmark. It also says nothing about whether any AI engine has seen these pages. We cannot see inside any AI engine’s index.

What you can do while you wait

1. Check that your robots.txt doesn’t block the search bots: OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and Claude-SearchBot, as well as Googlebot. The training bots, GPTBot and ClaudeBot, are listed separately from these by OpenAI and Anthropic.
2. Submit a sitemap in Google Search Console. Google says it can be very helpful for a newly launched site.
3. Consider IndexNow. It lets you tell participating search engines that a URL has changed, and Bing is one of them. You host a key file on your site, then send the URL. Its documentation says a successful response only means the search engine has received your URL.

Being found isn’t being named

A page can be in an engine’s index and still never appear in an answer. If you want to know where you stand, ask the question a buyer would ask and count how often your product comes up, which takes more than one try. The how-to-check guide walks through it by hand, why we ask the same question 8 times a week explains the counting, and why AI engines name your competitor instead of you covers what the documented evidence says about who gets named.

The free check runs one real question across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews with no account. The live demo shows a real account over time.