Who blocks AI · #667 in the Majestic Million
Does qcloud.com block AI crawlers?
Yes. qcloud.com’s robots.txt blocks all 19 AI crawlers we track, from GPTBot and ClaudeBot to PerplexityBot. It also blocks Googlebot, Bingbot and 5 more among search engines.
GPTBotBlockedOAI-SearchBotBlockedClaudeBotBlockedPerplexityBotBlockedGoogle-ExtendedBlockedCCBotBlocked- robots.txt
- qcloud.com/robots.txt · 3 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 | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * | |
Bingbot | Microsoft | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
DuckDuckBot | DuckDuckGo | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Applebot | Apple | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
PetalBot | Huawei | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
YandexBot | Yandex | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Baiduspider | Baidu | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
AI search
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
PerplexityBot | Perplexity | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Amazonbot | Amazon | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
YouBot | You.com | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
AI training
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
GPTBot | OpenAI | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
ClaudeBot | Anthropic | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Google-Extended | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * | |
CCBot | Common Crawl | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Applebot-Extended | Apple | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
GoogleOther | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * | |
Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Bytespider | ByteDance | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
User-triggered fetchers
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Claude-User | Anthropic | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Perplexity-User | Perplexity | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
MistralAI-User | Mistral | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
Meta-ExternalFetcher | Meta | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
SEO tools
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
AhrefsBot | Ahrefs | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
SemrushBot | Semrush | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
MJ12bot | Majestic | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
DotBot | Moz | Blocked | line 2 · Disallow: / under User-agent: * |
View qcloud.com/robots.txt · 3 lines
What do the bots actually get?
This page reads robots.txt, which states what qcloud.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 qcloud.com block GPTBot?
Yes. qcloud.com’s robots.txt disallows GPTBot from the whole site (line 2: 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 qcloud.com block ClaudeBot?
Yes. qcloud.com’s robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot from the whole site (line 2: Disallow: /). ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.
Does qcloud.com block Google-Extended?
Yes. qcloud.com’s robots.txt disallows Google-Extended from the whole site (line 2: 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 qcloud.com block PerplexityBot?
Yes. qcloud.com’s robots.txt disallows PerplexityBot from the whole site (line 2: Disallow: /). PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.
Can ChatGPT search find qcloud.com?
Not through its own crawler. qcloud.com’s robots.txt disallows OAI-SearchBot from the whole site (line 2: Disallow: /). OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.