Does bcg.com block AI crawlers?

No. bcg.com’s robots.txt lets all 19 AI crawlers we track crawl the site. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotAllowed OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.bcg.com/robots.txt · 19 lines
llms.txt: none
Checked: 9 November 2026, as canaicrawl. We check again every week.

Every bot, and the line that decides

Search engines

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`Googlebot`	Google	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Applebot`	Apple	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Amazonbot`	Amazon	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`YouBot`	You.com	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Google-Extended`	Google	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`GoogleOther`	Google	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalFetcher`	Meta	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

SEO tools

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`AhrefsBot`	Ahrefs	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`SemrushBot`	Semrush	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DotBot`	Moz	Allowed	line 9 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

View www.bcg.com/robots.txt · 19 lines

1Sitemap: https://www.bcg.com/google_sitemap.xml

2Sitemap: https://www.bcg.com/video-sitemap.xml

3User-agent: *

4Disallow: */search

5Disallow: */userprofile

6Disallow: */subscription

7Disallow: */api/*

8Disallow: */404

9Allow: /

10Allow: /publications/

11Allow: /capabilities/

12Allow: /industries/

13Allow: /offices/

14Allow: /about/

15Allow: /about/people/experts/

16Allow: /press/

17Allow: /news/

18Allow: /x/

19Allow: /about/client-impact/

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what bcg.com asks of crawlers. A firewall or CDN can still refuse a bot that robots.txt allows. The live check requests the page as each bot and shows the status it gets.

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History

19 October 2026: first checked.

Questions

Does bcg.com block GPTBot?

No. bcg.com’s robots.txt lets GPTBot crawl the site. GPTBot is OpenAI’s crawler for training data; blocking it doesn’t affect ChatGPT search, which uses OAI-SearchBot. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does bcg.com block ClaudeBot?

No. bcg.com’s robots.txt lets ClaudeBot crawl the site. ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does bcg.com block Google-Extended?

No. bcg.com’s robots.txt lets Google-Extended crawl the site. Google-Extended is the token that controls whether Google may use pages for Gemini training and grounding; it doesn’t affect Google Search. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does bcg.com block PerplexityBot?

No. bcg.com’s robots.txt lets PerplexityBot crawl the site. PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find bcg.com?

Yes. bcg.com’s robots.txt lets OAI-SearchBot crawl the site. OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.