8 answers, 12 pages, eight days.
Investigation Bureau is a UK private investigation service. It went live on 5 October 2026. In its first eight days ChatGPT fetched its pages to answer 8 questions, reading 12 different pages in the first week. One person clicked through from ChatGPT to the home page on 8 October. One answer that day combined five of the pages into a single reply about what a UK investigator may lawfully do. Within nine days Google had read 98% of its pages, Anthropic 94% and OpenAI 91%. Source: the server logs, read on 14 October 2026.
QuotableOne ChatGPT answer on 8 October read five of the pages at once: two service pages and three guides, stitched into one reply about what a UK investigator may lawfully do.
6 on 8 October, 2 on 11 October. Grok fetched the robots file on launch day, 5 October; that is a crawler reading the rules, not an answer, and it is not counted.
Twelve pages in a week, and one five-page answer.
| Page | Reads | What the person most likely asked |
|---|---|---|
| / | 2 | The brand, or "private investigator London" / "private investigator UK" |
| /guides/how-to-find-someones-address-uk | 1 | Finding someone's address in the UK |
| /guides | 1 | What the firm publishes |
| /services/people-tracing | 1 | Tracing a person |
| /guides/how-to-find-a-lost-friend-uk | 1 | Finding a lost friend |
| /services/covert-surveillance | 1 | What a UK investigator may lawfully do |
| /guides/can-i-hire-a-private-investigator-to-follow-someone | 1 | Can an investigator follow someone |
| /guides/is-private-investigator-evidence-admissible-in-court | 1 | Whether the evidence stands up in court |
| /services/cyber-investigations | 1 | Who is behind an account |
| /guides/who-is-behind-an-anonymous-account | 1 | Who is behind an anonymous account |
| /terms | 1 | Checking the firm out |
| /technology | 1 | What tools the firm uses |
The five pages read in one answer on 8 October: /guides/can-i-hire-a-private-investigator-to-follow-someone, /guides/is-private-investigator-evidence-admissible-in-court, /guides/who-is-behind-an-anonymous-account, /services/covert-surveillance, /services/cyber-investigations. Another answer the same day read the home page with the guide on finding someone's address. Questions are inferred from the page fetched and marked likely.
| Index crawler | Sitemap pages read | Share of the site |
|---|---|---|
| 84 of 86 | 98% | |
| Anthropic | 81 of 86 | 94% |
| OpenAI | 78 of 86 | 91% |
| Amazon Alexa | 78 of 86 | 91% |
| Apple | 73 of 86 | 85% |
| Meta AI | 41 of 86 | 48% |
| Bing | 1 of 86 | 1% |
| ChatGPT search | 0 of 86 | 0% |
DeepSeek, Google Vertex AI grounding and Exa (the search API many AI agents use) have started.
- ChatGPT search: not yet; ChatGPT answers come from live fetches
- Bing: 1% of the site
Bing feeds Copilot, ChatGPT search and DuckDuckGo, so getting Bing to crawl the site is the first job on the list, and the dashboard would show it as an amber lamp. ChatGPT's answers so far come from live fetches, not from its search index.
Search Console, first three days to 2026-10-08: 160 impressions, average position 56. Backlinks from other sites: 0.
Investigation Bureau is a Bureau Nine company, like LLMs Bureau. The site itself is at investigationbureau.uk. This is the only place on this site that links to it.