Does businessinsider.com block AI crawlers?
Blocks AI training, allows AI answers
businessinsider.com blocks at least one AI training crawler but still lets AI answer engines read its pages.
Checked from businessinsider.com/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 3 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 4
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 500 (#452)
Can AI assistants cite businessinsider.com?
- ChatGPT search: its search crawlers may read the site
- Claude: its search crawlers may read the site
- Perplexity: its search crawlers may read the site
businessinsider.com opts out of AI training by Anthropic, Common Crawl, ByteDance. Training crawlers and answer crawlers are separate: blocking training doesn't by itself remove a site from AI answers.
AI crawler access, bot by bot
| Crawler | Used for | Status on businessinsider.com |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Blocked |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Blocked |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Blocked |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Some paths restricted |
How businessinsider.com compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; businessinsider.com does not.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; businessinsider.com is one of them.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; businessinsider.com does not.
- Among 209 sites of similar popularity, 30% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: * Disallow: /*?utm_campaign=Monitor& Disallow: /adframe Disallow: /afp$ Disallow: /ajax/ Disallow: /answers$ Disallow: /archives Disallow: /associated-press$ Disallow: /authentication$ Disallow: /author/*/date Disallow: /author/*/mostread Disallow: /categories Disallow: /cms/ Disallow: /comments$ Disallow: /cross-domain$ Disallow: /document/ Disallow: /insider$ Disallow: /partner/ Disallow: /reuters$ Disallow: /reviews/out? Disallow: /guides/s? Disallow: /guides/search? Disallow: /personal-finance/s? Disallow: /track.gif Disallow: /uk$ Disallow: /ws/ Disallow: /business-insider$ Disallow: /*/contributor Disallow: /bi$ Disallow: /news-insider$ Disallow: /*/rss Disallow: /*.rss User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: /
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
- aol.com · 5 blocked
- pixabay.com · 6 blocked
- goodreads.com · 2 blocked
- go.com · 2 blocked
- globo.com · 3 blocked
- calendly.com · 1 blocked
- scribd.com · 3 blocked
- behance.net · 7 blocked
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Does businessinsider.com block GPTBot?
No. As of Oct 2, 2026, businessinsider.com's robots.txt doesn't block GPTBot, though some paths are restricted for all crawlers.
Can ChatGPT search show results from businessinsider.com?
Its robots.txt doesn't block OAI-SearchBot or ChatGPT-User, so ChatGPT's search crawlers may read it. Whether pages are actually shown depends on ChatGPT.
Does businessinsider.com have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at businessinsider.com/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: businessinsider.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.