IndexNow is an open protocol jointly announced by Microsoft Bing and Yandex that lets a site push new or changed URLs to participating search engines in near real time.
IndexNow is an open protocol jointly announced by Microsoft Bing and Yandex that lets a site push new or changed URLs to participating search engines in near real time.
Documented at indexnow.org. Because ChatGPT Search is Bing-backed, IndexNow is the fastest documented path to freshness on ChatGPT.
IndexNow is an open protocol jointly announced by Microsoft Bing and Yandex that lets a site push new or changed URLs to participating search engines in near real time — and it matters for ChatGPT because ChatGPT Search's live web results are anchored on Bing's index.
A new site can appear in AI answers within days, not months, when it ships crawlable HTML on launch, submits URLs via IndexNow and Google Search Console, and publishes content on questions with real user demand — the fastest documented paths run through Bing (for ChatGPT Search) and Google's fresh-content signals (for AI Overviews).
Get cited by ChatGPT by allowing OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User in robots.txt, ranking on Bing (ChatGPT Search's primary index), pushing new URLs via IndexNow, and shipping pages with a direct-answer first sentence plus QAPage or FAQPage JSON-LD.