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ibtimes.co.in · India · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,583 bytes. 2 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: Twitterbot
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: LinkedInBot
User-agent: redditbot
Crawl-delay: 900
Disallow:

User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: MJ12bot
User-agent: SemrushBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: trendictionbot
Crawl-delay: 900
Disallow: /
Sitemap: https://www.ibtimes.co.in/news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.ibtimes.co.in/sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 900
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /common/
Disallow: /art/services/print.php
Disallow: /article/ref_content
Disallow: /article/liv_e
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php

User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Crawl-delay: 600
Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /search/

User-agent: Bingbot
Crawl-delay: 600
Disallow:

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

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