Does moloco.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite moloco.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

moloco.com opts out of AI training by 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

How moloco.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; moloco.com does not.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; moloco.com does not.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; moloco.com does not.
• Among 194 sites of similar popularity, 29% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search?query=*
Disallow: /*?edit*
Disallow: /*category=*
Disallow: /*interested_in_solution*
Disallow: /*?lang=*
Disallow: /*?r=0
Disallow: /*sort_by=*
Disallow: /*filter_by=*
Disallow: /*ticket_form_id=*
Disallow: *?page_id=
Disallow: /hc/article_attachments/
Disallow: /*/landing-pages/*
Disallow: */untitled
Disallow: */dpa-mcm/*
Disallow: */dpa-dsp/*
Disallow: */dpa-sdk/*
Disallow: */dpa-agency/*
Disallow: */sronlineterms/*
Disallow: */generalterms-ma/*
Disallow: */content-guideline-ads/*
Disallow: */content-guideline-ads-rmg/*

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot

Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.

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