How AI crawlers read your robots.txt (and why your * rules may not apply)
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Most robots.txt files were written for Googlebot and Bingbot. Since then, AI companies have added several new crawlers, and they do different jobs. If you have never looked at how your file treats them, you may be blocking AI search by accident, or letting training crawlers in without ever deciding…
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- 2026-10-29 13:32 · DEV Community — AI
How AI crawlers read your robots.txt (and why your * rules may not apply)