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gulfnews.com

gulfnews.com · United Arab Emirates · measured 8 Oct 2026

Google Search
Allowed
Google-Extended
Allowed
OpenAI
Allowed
Anthropic
Allowed
Perplexity
Allowed
Meta
Allowed
Common Crawl
Allowed
ByteDance
Allowed
Apple
Allowed
Amazon
Allowed

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,951 bytes. No rule names an AI crawler.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /ajaxservlet
Disallow: /*gulfnews.AjaxPageLayout.ot
Disallow: /*gulfnews.FormPageLayout.ot
Disallow: /advanced-search*
Disallow: /sport/football/match-centre
Disallow: /sport/data/match
Disallow: /sport/data/league
Disallow: /sport/data/team
Disallow: /sport/data/player
Disallow: /sport/cricket/match-centre
Disallow: /sport/motorsport/results
Disallow: /search*
Disallow: /addOutlookToCalendar
Disallow: /guides/event-search-page
Disallow: /*token*
Disallow: /*articleTypeSuffix*
Disallow: /*returnTo*
Disallow: /*code*
Disallow: /*g-recaptcha-response*
Disallow: /*generatorName*
Disallow: /*categories*
Disallow: /*articleId*
Disallow: /cmlink/
Disallow: /polopoly_fs/
Disallow: /*.svg$

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /ajaxservlet
Disallow: /*gulfnews.AjaxPageLayout.ot
Disallow: /*gulfnews.FormPageLayout.ot
Disallow: /advanced-search*
Disallow: /sport/football/match-centre
Disallow: /sport/data/match
Disallow: /sport/data/league
Disallow: /sport/data/team
Disallow: /sport/data/player
Disallow: /sport/cricket/match-centre
Disallow: /sport/motorsport/results
Disallow: /search*
Disallow: /addOutlookToCalendar
Disallow: /guides/event-search-page
Disallow: /cmlink/
Disallow: /polopoly_fs/
Disallow: /*.svg$

User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Disallow: /ajaxservlet
Disallow: /*gulfnews.AjaxPageLayout.ot
Disallow: /*gulfnews.FormPageLayout.ot
Disallow: /advanced-search*
Disallow: /sport/football/match-centre
Disallow: /sport/data/match
Disallow: /sport/data/league
Disallow: /sport/data/team
Disallow: /sport/data/player
Disallow: /sport/cricket/match-centre
Disallow: /sport/motorsport/results
Disallow: /search*
Disallow: /addOutlookToCalendar
Disallow: /guides/event-search-page
Disallow: /writers/
Disallow: /demo/
Disallow: /hcl/
Disallow: /cmlink/
Disallow: /polopoly_fs/
Disallow: /*.svg$

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://gulfnews.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://gulfnews.com/news_sitemap.xml

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

United Arab Emirates
15.8% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
Yes