Does siteforce.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite siteforce.com?

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

siteforce.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 siteforce.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; siteforce.com is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; siteforce.com is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; siteforce.com is one of them.
• Among 177 sites of similar popularity, 25% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Allow: /?*un=*&pw=*
Allow: /?*pw=*&un=*
Allow: /secur/frontdoor.jsp?*sid=*
Allow: /secur/contentDoor?*sid=*
Allow: /secur/myDomainDoor?*sid=*
Allow: /secur/LoginInterstitial.apexp
Allow: /secur/login_portal.jsp?*pw=*
Allow: /sserv/login.jsp?*pw=*
Allow: /login.jsp?*pw=*
Allow: /login/login.jsp?*pw=*
Allow: /secur/login_page.jsp?*pw=*
Disallow: /

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

Sites with a similar AI policy

• allrecipes.com · 9 blocked
• metro.co.uk · 12 blocked
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• worldcat.org · 4 blocked
• flipboard.com · 4 blocked
• nate.com · 12 blocked
• vogue.com · 9 blocked
• permutive.app · 12 blocked

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