{
  "site": "https://better-robots.com/",
  "updated": "2026-03-29",
  "terms": [
    {
      "id": "ai_crawler",
      "label": "AI crawler",
      "definition": "A crawler operated by an AI search, retrieval, answer-generation, or training-oriented system."
    },
    {
      "id": "archive_bot",
      "label": "Archive bot",
      "definition": "A bot whose goal is snapshot capture, replay, or long-term preservation of public content."
    },
    {
      "id": "seo_tool_bot",
      "label": "SEO tool bot",
      "definition": "A crawler operated by a commercial SEO product or research platform."
    },
    {
      "id": "crawl_waste",
      "label": "Crawl waste",
      "definition": "Low-value crawling spent on paths that do not deserve meaningful discovery priority."
    },
    {
      "id": "policy_signal",
      "label": "Policy signal",
      "definition": "A published declaration of intent, preference, or routing logic that does not by itself prove force or runtime compliance."
    },
    {
      "id": "answer_generation_use",
      "label": "Answer-generation use",
      "definition": "Use of public content to help generate or ground a machine-produced answer at query time."
    },
    {
      "id": "model_training_use",
      "label": "Model-training use",
      "definition": "Use of public content for model training, model improvement, or long-term corpus ingestion."
    },
    {
      "id": "runtime_proof",
      "label": "Runtime proof",
      "definition": "Evidence from a live site or environment showing that a behavior is actually occurring now."
    },
    {
      "id": "ai_visibility",
      "label": "AI visibility",
      "definition": "The discipline of making a site discoverable, understandable, citable, and governable across classic search engines and answer-oriented AI systems."
    },
    {
      "id": "ai_search_seo",
      "label": "AI search SEO",
      "definition": "Modern SEO extended to answer systems, AI retrieval, preview governance, machine-readable posture, and source-page design."
    },
    {
      "id": "answer_engine_optimization",
      "label": "Answer Engine Optimization",
      "definition": "A sub-discipline of AI visibility focused on making pages easier for answer engines to retrieve, extract, quote, and route."
    },
    {
      "id": "generative_engine_optimization",
      "label": "Generative Engine Optimization",
      "definition": "A framing for source-page architecture that helps generative systems discover, retrieve, and cite low-ambiguity pages."
    },
    {
      "id": "source_page",
      "label": "Source page",
      "definition": "A page intentionally designed to become a stable, citable reference for a topic, definition, comparison, or procedure."
    },
    {
      "id": "machine_readable_posture",
      "label": "Machine-readable posture",
      "definition": "The coherent combination of public crawl policy, preview controls, guidance files, and governance signals published by a site."
    },
    {
      "id": "preview_governance",
      "label": "Preview governance",
      "definition": "The control of snippets, excerpts, quoteable passages, and display boundaries through meta directives and content structure."
    },
    {
      "id": "user_triggered_retrieval",
      "label": "User-triggered retrieval",
      "definition": "Page fetches initiated by an AI product in response to a specific user request, often distinct from training or classic search crawling."
    }
  ]
}