Does vg.no block AI crawlers?
Blocks AI training and AI answers
vg.no blocks both AI training crawlers and AI answer crawlers in its robots.txt.
Checked from vg.no/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 8 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 10
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 2,000 (#1,193)
Can AI assistants cite vg.no?
- ChatGPT search: its search crawlers may read the site
- Claude: its search crawler is blocked
- Perplexity: its search crawler is blocked
vg.no opts out of AI training by 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
| Crawler | Used for | Status on vg.no |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Blocked |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Blocked |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Blocked |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Blocked |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Blocked |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Blocked |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Blocked |
How vg.no compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; vg.no does not.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; vg.no is one of them.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; vg.no is one of them.
- Among 207 sites of similar popularity, 30% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: * User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Disallow: /sok*?* Disallow: /tegneserier/salesposter Disallow: /poll Disallow: /informasjon/redaksjonelle-avgjorelser/182 Disallow: /informasjon/redaksjonelle-avgjorelser/212 Disallow: /preview Disallow: /?vcheck=1 Disallow: /?_escaped_fragment_=/kategori/144/bolig-tv Disallow: /?_escaped_fragment_=/kategori Disallow: /hei Disallow: /rabattkode/ Allow: / User-agent: AI2Bot User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma User-agent: Amazonbot User-agent: anthropic-ai User-agent: Applebot-Extended User-agent: Bytespider User-agent: CCBot User-agent: Claude-Web User-agent: ClaudeBot User-agent: Claude-SearchBot User-agent: cohere-ai User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler User-agent: Crawlspace User-agent: Diffbot User-agent: FacebookBot User-agent: FriendlyCrawler User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: iaskspider/2.0 User-agent: ICC-Crawler User-agent: ImagesiftBot User-agent: img2dataset User-agent: Kangaroo Bot User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent User-agent: omgili User-agent: omgilibot User-agent: PanguBot User-agent: PerplexityBot User-agent: PetalBot User-agent: Scrapy User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot User-agent: Timpibot User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler User-agent: Webzio-Extended User-agent: YouBot Disallow: /
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does vg.no block GPTBot?
No. As of Oct 2, 2026, vg.no's robots.txt doesn't block GPTBot, though some paths are restricted for all crawlers.
Can ChatGPT search show results from vg.no?
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 vg.no have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at vg.no/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: vg.no's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.