I had my IP-blocking down for an hour today (planned) and noticed a hit from PerplexityBot (AWS 18.97.9.102). It got my url-re-write (you are a bot) so I don't know what it asked for.
There was a thread here back about 2 years ago on this bot - I would have posted this there but thread was closed.
I'm wondering what's the verdict on this bot? It doesn't get much press like openAI / ChatGPT / Grok does so I have no idea if people are using it. Has anyone seen it as a referer? Am I missing out on anything by blocking it?