SearchSeal vs Google Search Console
Search Console is Google’s free tool for how Google crawls and indexes your site: crawl stats, indexing status and search performance.
Search Console shows what Googlebot does with your site. Nothing built into your stack shows the same for AI crawlers. That gap is the product.
Google Search Console measures
- Googlebot crawl activity and crawl stats for your site
- Indexing status, coverage issues and sitemap health
- Impressions, clicks and position in Google Search
SearchSeal measures
- Real requests from AI crawlers to your site: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot and others
- Which pages each crawler read, and the HTTP outcome of every request
- Whether robots.txt or your host is blocking a crawler
- Observed counts with labeled coverage. Unknown is shown as unknown, never as zero
Side by side
Crawlers covered
Google Search Console
Google’s crawlers
SearchSeal
AI crawlers: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot and others
Answers the question
Google Search Console
Can Google see my site
SearchSeal
Can AI systems see my site
Data source
Google Search Console
Google’s own crawl and search data
SearchSeal
Your own traffic: real crawler requests
Programmatic access
Google Search Console
API
SearchSeal
REST API and MCP server
This is not an either-or. Keep Search Console for Google. SearchSeal covers the crawlers it will never show you.
When Google Search Console fits
Always. If you have a website, you should have Search Console. It is the ground truth for Google.
When SearchSeal fits
When you want the same kind of ground truth for AI: which AI crawlers visit, what they read, and whether anything blocks them.