Who blocks AI · #1235 in the Majestic Million
Does enlightenment.org block AI crawlers?
Yes. enlightenment.org’s robots.txt blocks all 19 AI crawlers we track, from GPTBot and ClaudeBot to PerplexityBot. It also blocks PetalBot among search engines.
GPTBotBlockedOAI-SearchBotBlockedClaudeBotBlockedPerplexityBotBlockedGoogle-ExtendedBlockedCCBotBlocked- robots.txt
- www.enlightenment.org/robots.txt · 12 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 | Allowed | line 8 · Allow: / under User-agent: Googlebot | |
Bingbot | Microsoft | Allowed | line 8 · Allow: / under User-agent: bingbot |
DuckDuckBot | DuckDuckGo | Allowed | line 8 · Allow: / under User-agent: DuckDuckBot |
Applebot | Apple | Allowed | line 8 · Allow: / under User-agent: Applebot |
PetalBot | Huawei | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
YandexBot | Yandex | Allowed | line 8 · Allow: / under User-agent: YandexBot |
Baiduspider | Baidu | Allowed | line 8 · Allow: / under User-agent: Baiduspider |
AI search
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
PerplexityBot | Perplexity | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Amazonbot | Amazon | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
YouBot | You.com | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
AI training
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
GPTBot | OpenAI | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
ClaudeBot | Anthropic | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Google-Extended | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * | |
CCBot | Common Crawl | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Applebot-Extended | Apple | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
GoogleOther | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * | |
Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Bytespider | ByteDance | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
User-triggered fetchers
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Claude-User | Anthropic | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Perplexity-User | Perplexity | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
MistralAI-User | Mistral | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Meta-ExternalFetcher | Meta | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
SEO tools
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
AhrefsBot | Ahrefs | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
SemrushBot | Semrush | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
MJ12bot | Majestic | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
DotBot | Moz | Blocked | line 11 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
View www.enlightenment.org/robots.txt · 12 lines
What do the bots actually get?
This page reads robots.txt, which states what enlightenment.org 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 enlightenment.org block GPTBot?
Yes. enlightenment.org’s robots.txt disallows GPTBot from the whole site (line 11: Disallow: /). GPTBot is OpenAI’s crawler for training data; blocking it doesn’t affect ChatGPT search, which uses OAI-SearchBot. Checked 9 November 2026.
Does enlightenment.org block ClaudeBot?
Yes. enlightenment.org’s robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot from the whole site (line 11: Disallow: /). ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.
Does enlightenment.org block Google-Extended?
Yes. enlightenment.org’s robots.txt disallows Google-Extended from the whole site (line 11: Disallow: /). 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 enlightenment.org block PerplexityBot?
Yes. enlightenment.org’s robots.txt disallows PerplexityBot from the whole site (line 11: Disallow: /). PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.
Can ChatGPT search find enlightenment.org?
Not through its own crawler. enlightenment.org’s robots.txt disallows OAI-SearchBot from the whole site (line 11: Disallow: /). OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.