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Disallow: /core/*
Disallow: /r/*
Disallow: /mnt/*
Disallow: /search/*

# ===== GOOGLE =====

# Allow search including AI Overviews, Gemini
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
Allow: /

# Block use of content to train AI
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

# Block generic non-search crawling
User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Disallow: /

# ===== OPENAI =====

# Allow search/retrieval results
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

# Allow user-initiated browsing
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Block use of content to train AI
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

# ===== ANTHROPIC =====

# Allow search/retrieval results
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

# Allow user-initiated browsing
User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

# Block use of content to train AI
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

# ===== APPLE =====

# Allow search (Siri, Spotlight, Safari)
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

# Block use of content to train AI
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

# ===== AMAZON =====

# Block use of content for AI training, ads etc.
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

# ===== META =====

# Allow link previews when content is shared on Meta platforms
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

# Allow search
User-agent: meta-webindexer
Allow: /
User-agent: Meta-WebIndexer
Allow: /

# Block use of content to train AI
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

# ===== OTHERS =====

# Block use of content to train AI, scrapping, high volume crawling

User-agent: AwarioRssBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /

User-agent: news-please
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: peer39_crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Quora-Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

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