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thehindubusinessline.com · India · The Hindu · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 2,209 bytes. 15 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /
Disallow: */1000*
Sitemap: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/sitemap/googlenews/all/all.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/sitemap/update.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/sitemap/archive.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /?type=commentReceipt
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/*
Disallow: /config/
Disallow: /nic/
Disallow: /search/*
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /SEARCH/
Disallow: /Search/
Disallow: /newsletter/
Disallow: /newsletter/*
Disallow: /config/*
Disallow: /*?date=*
Disallow: */analysis-logger/*
Disallow: /todayspaper/
Disallow: /today-paper/
Disallow: /todays-paper/
Disallow: */More*
Disallow: */fragment*
Disallow: */migration_catalog/*

User-agent: *
Disallow: */stocks/*/overview*
Disallow: */stock/*/management*
Disallow: *?trk*
Disallow: *?tbcli*
Disallow: *?prefix*
Disallow: /*-$
Disallow: /template/1-0-1/gfx/favicon.ico
Disallow: /world-news-day/
Disallow: */wf.fragment/*
Disallow: */article30471298.ece/amp/*
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Disallow: /archive/print/
Disallow: /companies/announcements/*
Allow: /?service=googlenews
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Disallow: */?page=*&*
Disallow: /analysis-logger/
Disallow: /todays-paper/

User-agent: Grok
Disallow: /

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

India
25.0% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
Yes
Same group
frontline.in, thehindu.com