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tamil.news18.com · India · Network18 Media & Investments Limited · measured 4 Aug 2026

Google Search
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Google-Extended
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OpenAI
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Anthropic
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Perplexity
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Meta
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Common Crawl
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ByteDance
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Apple
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Amazon
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robots.txt

As read on 4 Aug 2026, 3,851 bytes. 14 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

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User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
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User-agent: Scrapy
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User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
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History

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