Who blocks AI · #1154 in the Majestic Million

robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does mapquest.com block AI crawlers?

Yes. mapquest.com’s robots.txt blocks all 19 AI crawlers we track, from GPTBot and ClaudeBot to PerplexityBot. It also blocks DuckDuckBot, PetalBot and 2 more among search engines.

GPTBotBlocked OAI-SearchBotBlocked ClaudeBotBlocked PerplexityBotBlocked Google-ExtendedBlocked CCBotBlocked

robots.txt: www.mapquest.com/robots.txt · 102 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	Partly blocked	line 14 · `Disallow: /account/` line 15 · `Disallow: /search/` and 4 more
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Partly blocked	line 14 · `Disallow: /account/` line 15 · `Disallow: /search/` and 4 more
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Blocked	line 97 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: DuckDuckBot`
`Applebot`	Apple	Partly blocked	line 14 · `Disallow: /account/` line 15 · `Disallow: /search/` and 4 more
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: PetalBot`
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Blocked	line 101 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Blocked	line 101 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: OAI-SearchBot`
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: PerplexityBot`
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Claude-SearchBot`
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: DuckAssistBot`
`Amazonbot`	Amazon	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Amazonbot`
`YouBot`	You.com	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: YouBot`

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: GPTBot`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: ClaudeBot`
`Google-Extended`	Google	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Google-Extended`
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: CCBot`
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Applebot-Extended`
`GoogleOther`	Google	Blocked	line 101 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent`
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Bytespider`

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: ChatGPT-User`
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Claude-User`
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Perplexity-User`
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Blocked	line 101 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalFetcher`	Meta	Blocked	line 93 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher`

SEO tools

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`AhrefsBot`	Ahrefs	Blocked	line 101 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`SemrushBot`	Semrush	Blocked	line 101 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Blocked	line 101 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DotBot`	Moz	Blocked	line 101 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`

View www.mapquest.com/robots.txt · 102 lines

1# robots.txt for www.mapquest.com

2# Crawling is permitted only for the user agents listed below.

3# All other crawlers are disallowed.

4# To request crawl access, contact sales@mapquest.com

5# Last updated: 2026-11-03

7Sitemap: https://www.mapquest.com/sitemap.xml

9# Search engines

10User-agent: Googlebot

11User-agent: Google-InspectionTool

12User-agent: bingbot

13User-agent: Applebot

14Disallow: /account/*

15Disallow: /search/*

16Disallow: /timeout

17Disallow: /my-maps/*

18Disallow: /*MQAB=*

19Disallow: /*o3ijf=*

21# Link previews

22User-agent: Twitterbot

23User-agent: LinkedInBot

24User-agent: facebookexternalhit

25User-agent: Slackbot

26User-agent: Slackbot-LinkExpanding

27User-agent: Discordbot

28User-agent: WhatsApp

29User-agent: TelegramBot

30User-agent: Pinterestbot

31Disallow: /account/*

32Disallow: /search/*

33Disallow: /timeout

34Disallow: /my-maps/*

35Disallow: /*MQAB=*

36Disallow: /*o3ijf=*

38# Advertising

39User-agent: AmazonAdBot

40Allow: /search/*

41Allow: /*MQAB=*

42Disallow:

43Crawl-delay: 1

45User-agent: AdsBot-Google

46User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile

47User-agent: Mediapartners-Google

48Disallow:

50User-agent: adidxbot

51Disallow:

53# AI crawlers and agents

54User-agent: Google-Extended

55User-agent: Applebot-Extended

56User-agent: GPTBot

57User-agent: OAI-SearchBot

58User-agent: ChatGPT-User

59User-agent: ClaudeBot

60User-agent: Claude-SearchBot

61User-agent: Claude-User

62User-agent: anthropic-ai

63User-agent: Claude-Web

64User-agent: PerplexityBot

65User-agent: Perplexity-User

66User-agent: DuckAssistBot

67User-agent: CCBot

68User-agent: Bytespider

69User-agent: Amazonbot

70User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent

71User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher

72User-agent: FacebookBot

73User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot

74User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research

75User-agent: cohere-ai

76User-agent: Diffbot

77User-agent: AI2Bot

78User-agent: AI2Bot-Dolma

79User-agent: Img2dataset

80User-agent: ImagesiftBot

81User-agent: Timpibot

82User-agent: Omgilibot

83User-agent: omgili

84User-agent: webzio-extended

85User-agent: YouBot

86User-agent: PhindBot

87User-agent: PanguBot

88User-agent: PetalBot

89User-agent: ExaBot

90User-agent: AndiBot

91User-agent: SentiBot

92User-agent: magpie-crawler

93Disallow: /

95# Other crawlers

96User-agent: DuckDuckBot

97Disallow: /

99# Default

100User-agent: *

101Disallow: /

102

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what mapquest.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.
2 November 2026: started blocking DuckDuckBot.
9 November 2026: now blocks part of the site to Googlebot; now blocks part of the site to Bingbot; now blocks part of the site to Applebot; started blocking YandexBot; started blocking Baiduspider; started blocking Claude-SearchBot; started blocking DuckAssistBot; started blocking GoogleOther; started blocking Claude-User; started blocking Perplexity-User; started blocking MistralAI-User; started blocking AhrefsBot; started blocking SemrushBot; started blocking MJ12bot; started blocking DotBot.

Questions

Does mapquest.com block GPTBot?

Yes. mapquest.com’s robots.txt disallows GPTBot from the whole site (line 93: 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 mapquest.com block ClaudeBot?

Yes. mapquest.com’s robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot from the whole site (line 93: Disallow: /). ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does mapquest.com block Google-Extended?

Yes. mapquest.com’s robots.txt disallows Google-Extended from the whole site (line 93: 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 mapquest.com block PerplexityBot?

Yes. mapquest.com’s robots.txt disallows PerplexityBot from the whole site (line 93: Disallow: /). PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find mapquest.com?

Not through its own crawler. mapquest.com’s robots.txt disallows OAI-SearchBot from the whole site (line 93: Disallow: /). OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.