Does yahoo.com block AI crawlers?
Blocks AI training and AI answers
yahoo.com blocks both AI training crawlers and AI answer crawlers in its robots.txt.
Checked from yahoo.com/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 7 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 10
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 100 (#59)
Can AI assistants cite yahoo.com?
- ChatGPT search: its search crawler is blocked
- Claude: its search crawlers may read the site
- Perplexity: its search crawler is blocked
yahoo.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, 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 yahoo.com |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Blocked |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Blocked |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Blocked |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Blocked |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Blocked |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Blocked |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Blocked |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Some paths restricted |
How yahoo.com compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; yahoo.com is one of them.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; yahoo.com is one of them.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; yahoo.com is one of them.
- Among 112 sites of similar popularity, 37% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: * Disallow: /info/p.gif Disallow: /p/ Disallow: /r/ Disallow: /bin/ Disallow: /caas/ Disallow: /blank.html Disallow: /includes/ Disallow: /_td_api Disallow: /tdv2_fp Disallow: /nel_ms Disallow: /fp_ms Disallow: /sports_fp_ms Disallow: /search_ms Disallow: /_tdpp_api Disallow: /_remote Disallow: /_multiremote Disallow: /_tdhl_api Disallow: /digest Disallow: /fpjs Disallow: /myjs Disallow: /news/m/ User-agent: ADmantX User-agent: AlphaBot User-agent: anthropic-ai User-agent: AwarioRssBot User-agent: AwarioSmartBot User-agent: BLEXBot User-agent: Buzzbot User-agent: Bytespider User-agent: CCBot User-agent: ChatGPT-User User-agent: claritybot User-agent: Claude-Web User-agent: ClaudeBot User-agent: cohere-ai User-agent: Diffbot User-agent: FacebookBot User-agent: FriendlyCrawler User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: huggingface User-agent: ImagesiftBot User-agent: img2dataset User-agent: magpie-crawler User-agent: Meltwater User-agent: Neevabot User-agent: news-please User-agent: NewsNow User-agent: Nutch User-agent: omgili User-agent: omgilibot User-agent: panscient.com User-agent: Perplexity-ai User-agent: PerplexityBot User-agent: PetalBot User-agent: PiplBot User-agent: scoop.it User-agent: Scrapy User-agent: Seekr User-agent: SentiBot User-agent: SeznamBot User-agent: TurnitinBot User-agent: YouBot User-agent: ZumBot Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-SearchBot User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Disallow: */articles/
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does yahoo.com block GPTBot?
Yes. As of Oct 2, 2026, yahoo.com's robots.txt disallows GPTBot, OpenAI's training crawler.
Can ChatGPT search show results from yahoo.com?
Its robots.txt blocks a ChatGPT search crawler, so ChatGPT search is unlikely to read or cite those pages.
Does yahoo.com have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at yahoo.com/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: yahoo.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.