Does kpmg.com block AI crawlers?

No. kpmg.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: kpmg.com/robots.txt · 23 lines
llms.txt: found
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 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Applebot`	Apple	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Amazonbot`	Amazon	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`YouBot`	You.com	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Google-Extended`	Google	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`GoogleOther`	Google	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalFetcher`	Meta	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

SEO tools

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`AhrefsBot`	Ahrefs	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`SemrushBot`	Semrush	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DotBot`	Moz	Allowed	line 6 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

View kpmg.com/robots.txt · 23 lines

1# Version 2024.10.16

2# kpmg.com

3User-agent: cludo

4Allow:

5User-agent: *

6Allow: /

7Disallow: /es/es.html?*utm_

8Disallow: /es/es.html?*action

9Disallow: /*/misc/search*.html

10Disallow: /*/Misc/search*.html

11Disallow: /*/miscellaneous/search*.html

12Disallow: /*/miscellaneous-pages/search*.html

13Disallow: /*/strony-informacyjne/search*.html

14Disallow: /*/misc/buscador.html

15Disallow: /*/misc/resultados-pesquisa.html

16Disallow: /*/misc/resultados-de-pesquisa.html

17Disallow: /*/misc/paieska.html

18Disallow: /*/miscellaneous/paieska.html

19Disallow: /*/diverse/sok.html

20Disallow: /*/misc/leitarnidurstodur.html

21User-agent: YouDaoBot

22Disallow: /

23Sitemap: https://kpmg.com/sitemap-index.xml

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what kpmg.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 kpmg.com block GPTBot?

No. kpmg.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 kpmg.com block ClaudeBot?

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

Does kpmg.com block Google-Extended?

No. kpmg.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 kpmg.com block PerplexityBot?

No. kpmg.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 kpmg.com?

Yes. kpmg.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.