Does msn.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite msn.com?

• ChatGPT search: its search crawler is blocked
• Claude: its search crawler is blocked
• Perplexity: its search crawler is blocked

msn.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Apple, Common Crawl, ByteDance, Meta. 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 msn.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; msn.com is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; msn.com is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; msn.com is one of them.
• Among 117 sites of similar popularity, 37% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*/health/search/filter
Disallow: /spartan
Disallow: /pt-ao
Disallow: /*preview=
Disallow: /*/autos/marketplace/product/
Disallow: /*/cars/marketplace/product/
Disallow: /*?item=
Disallow: /*&item=
Disallow: /codeCoverage
Disallow: /vpBaselines
Disallow: /msnBaselines
Disallow: /*/studio
Disallow: /*/indexnowdelete/
Allow: /*/shopping/*/ar-
Allow: /*/shopping/*/ss-
Allow: /*/shopping/*/vi-
Disallow: /*/shopping/

User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Bedrockbot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGLM
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: Gensparkbot
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: Grok
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: Img2dataset
User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: KunatoCrawler
User-agent: magpie-crawler
User-agent: Meltwater
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: MistralAI
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: Momentumbot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: Omgilibot
User-agent: Other
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Perplexity-ai
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: QualifiedBot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: Seekr
User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
User-agent: TikTokSpider
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: Twitterbot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: WARDBot
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: WRTNBot
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

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

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