Who blocks AI · #270 in the Majestic Million
robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026
Does huawei.com block AI crawlers?
No. huawei.com’s robots.txt lets all 19 AI crawlers we track crawl the site. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.
GPTBotAllowedOAI-SearchBotAllowedClaudeBotAllowedPerplexityBotAllowedGoogle-ExtendedAllowedCCBotAllowed- robots.txt
- www.huawei.com/robots.txt · 72 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 | no rule matches the home page | |
Bingbot | Microsoft | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
DuckDuckBot | DuckDuckGo | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Applebot | Apple | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
PetalBot | Huawei | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
YandexBot | Yandex | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Baiduspider | Baidu | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
AI search
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
PerplexityBot | Perplexity | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Amazonbot | Amazon | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
YouBot | You.com | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
AI training
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
GPTBot | OpenAI | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
ClaudeBot | Anthropic | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Google-Extended | Allowed | no rule matches the home page | |
CCBot | Common Crawl | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Applebot-Extended | Apple | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
GoogleOther | Allowed | no rule matches the home page | |
Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Bytespider | ByteDance | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
User-triggered fetchers
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Claude-User | Anthropic | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Perplexity-User | Perplexity | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
MistralAI-User | Mistral | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Meta-ExternalFetcher | Meta | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
SEO tools
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
AhrefsBot | Ahrefs | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
SemrushBot | Semrush | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
MJ12bot | Majestic | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
DotBot | Moz | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
View www.huawei.com/robots.txt · 72 lines
1User-Agent: *
2Disallow: /cn/enterprise/
3Disallow: /en/enterprise/
4Disallow: /minisite/test/
5Disallow: /minisite/static/
6Disallow: /minisite/error
7Disallow: /minisite/qr/
8Disallow: /minisite/gas2015/
9Disallow: /static/
10Disallow: /gas2015/
11Disallow: /minisite/sm-vi/
12Disallow: /minisite/japan10years/
13Disallow: /redirect/
14Disallow: /isurvey/
15Disallow: /huaweilink/
16Disallow: /eox_backup/
17Disallow: /iwcmmarketing/
18Disallow: /w3info/
19Disallow: /jp/about-huawei/publications/huawave$
20Disallow: /en/products-lifecycle
21Disallow: /cn/products-lifecycle
22Disallow: /*/corporate/home/
23Disallow: /audience/
24Disallow: /enterpriseform/
25Disallow: /ilink/
26Disallow: /ucmf/groups/
27Disallow: /mediafiles/*
28Disallow: /by/
29Disallow: /us/
30Disallow: /en/events/huaweiconnect/livestream-for-tvs$
31Disallow: /cn/events/huaweiconnect/livestream-for-tvs$
32Disallow: /minisite/ias-2024/
33Disallow: /minisite/ias-2023/
34Disallow: /en/events/huaweiconnect/sessions-on-demand*
35Disallow: /cn/events/huaweiconnect/sessions-on-demand*
36Disallow: /ca/
37Disallow: /hc/
38
39# Sitemap files
40Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/href-sitemap-index.xml
41Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/kz/href-sitemap-kk-KZ.xml
42Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/kz-ru/href-sitemap-ru-KZ.xml
43Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/tr/href-sitemap-tr.xml
44Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/ua/href-sitemap-uk.xml
45Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/mn/href-sitemap-mn.xml
46Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/ch-fr/href-sitemap-fr-CH.xml
47Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/sg/href-sitemap-en-SG.xml
48Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/eu/href-sitemap-en-EU.xml
49Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/tz/href-sitemap-en-TZ.xml
50Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/br/href-sitemap-pt.xml
51Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/es/href-sitemap-es.xml
52Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/nz/href-sitemap-en-NZ.xml
53Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/de/href-sitemap-de.xml
54Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/ch/href-sitemap-de-CH.xml
55Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/fr/href-sitemap-fr.xml
56Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/pl/href-sitemap-pl.xml
57Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/it/href-sitemap-it.xml
58Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/my/href-sitemap-en-MY.xml
59Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/ch-en/href-sitemap-en-CH.xml
60Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/jp/href-sitemap-ja.xml
61Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/th/href-sitemap-th.xml
62Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/za/href-sitemap-en-ZA.xml
63Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/cn/href-sitemap-zh.xml
64Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/ro/href-sitemap-ro.xml
65Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/nl/href-sitemap-nl.xml
66Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/uz-uz/href-sitemap-uz.xml
67Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/en/href-sitemap-x-default.xml
68Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/ch-it/href-sitemap-it-CH.xml
69Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/ke/href-sitemap-en-KE.xml
70Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/mx/href-sitemap-es-MX.xml
71Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/vn/href-sitemap-vi.xml
72Sitemap: https://www.huawei.com/ie/href-sitemap-en-IE.xml
What do the bots actually get?
This page reads robots.txt, which states what huawei.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.
Run a live check on huawei.com Test a path in the robots.txt tester
History
- 19 October 2026: first checked.
Questions
Does huawei.com block GPTBot?
No. huawei.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 huawei.com block ClaudeBot?
No. huawei.com’s robots.txt lets ClaudeBot crawl the site. ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.
Does huawei.com block Google-Extended?
No. huawei.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 huawei.com block PerplexityBot?
No. huawei.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 huawei.com?
Yes. huawei.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.