Who blocks AI · #182 in the Majestic Million

robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does samsung.com block AI crawlers?

No. samsung.com’s robots.txt lets all 19 AI crawlers we track crawl the site, though it keeps OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and 3 more out of some paths. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotPartly blocked OAI-SearchBotPartly blocked ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotPartly blocked Google-ExtendedPartly blocked CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.samsung.com/robots.txt · 350 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	Partly blocked	line 11 · `Disallow: //business/search/` line 12 · `Disallow: //parking` and 47 more
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot`	Apple	Partly blocked	line 11 · `Disallow: //business/search/` line 12 · `Disallow: //parking` and 47 more
`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	Partly blocked	line 11 · `Disallow: //business/search/` line 12 · `Disallow: //parking` and 47 more
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Partly blocked	line 11 · `Disallow: //business/search/` line 12 · `Disallow: //parking` and 47 more
`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	Partly blocked	line 11 · `Disallow: //business/search/` line 12 · `Disallow: //parking` and 47 more
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Google-Extended`	Google	Partly blocked	line 11 · `Disallow: //business/search/` line 12 · `Disallow: //parking` and 47 more
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`GoogleOther`	Google	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	Partly blocked	line 11 · `Disallow: //business/search/` line 12 · `Disallow: //parking` and 47 more
`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.samsung.com/robots.txt · 350 lines

1User-agent: *

2User-agent: Googlebot

3User-agent: AdsBot-Google

4User-agent: Googlebot-Image

5User-agent: OAI-SearchBot

6User-agent: GPTBot

7User-agent: ChatGPT-User

8User-agent: PerplexityBot

9User-agent: Google-Extended

10Disallow:

11Disallow: /*/business/search/

12Disallow: /*/parking

13Disallow: /*/parking/

14Disallow: /*/search/

15Disallow: /*/ai-search/

16Disallow: /*/business/ai-search/

17Disallow: /*/aisearch/

18Disallow: /*/business/aisearch/

19Disallow: /*/system/*

20Allow: /uk/info/contactus/email-the-ceo/

21Disallow: /*/info/contactus/email-the-ceo/

22Disallow: /*/c/p/

23Disallow: /de/aboutsamsung/inner-circle-2017/

24Disallow: /ru/cdm/*

25Disallow: /uk/*productcompare

26Disallow: /uk/wdc/*

27Disallow: /us/dealer/*

28Disallow: /us/epp/*

29Disallow: /us/support/service/agent/*

30Disallow: /us/business/search/

31Disallow: /us/api/

32Disallow: /us/trade-in/program-violation/

33Disallow: /sg/ab/*

34Disallow: /*/*bvstate*

35Disallow: /*/_jcr_content/*

36Disallow: /*/galaxy-s10-buy-test/*

37Disallow: /*/connected-living/content-library/*

38Disallow: /se/info/privacy/officecctv/

39Disallow: /au/referral/referred-friend/

40Disallow: /*/common/review/

41Disallow: /*/edm/

42Disallow: /au/email/

43Disallow: /au/emailtest/

44Disallow: /*/testhome/

45Disallow: /*/home_gnb/

46Disallow: /*/home_hq/

47Disallow: /*/home_3rd/

48Disallow: /*/home_notag/

49Disallow: /*/home_75/

50Disallow: /*/home_50/

51Disallow: /*/home_25/

52Disallow: /*/speedtest/*

53Disallow: /us/business/new/*

54Allow: /in/multistore/*

55Allow: /hu/multistore/diakkedvezmenyek/

56Allow: /es/multistore/es_samsungdeals/

57Allow: /sg/multistore/sg_eppfinancing/offers_epp/

58Allow: /es/multistore/es_canary_islands/

59Allow: /co/multistore/co_epp_members/

60Allow: /co/multistore/co_epp_corp_gointegro/

61Allow: /co/multistore/co_epp_outlet/

62Allow: /co/multistore/co_epp_secret/

63Allow: /co/multistore/gobierno_co/

64Allow: /co/multistore/pymes_co/

65Allow: /pe/multistore/membersshop/

66Allow: /cl/multistore/members/

67Allow: /ca/multistore/offers/back-to-school/

68Allow: /ca_fr/multistore/offers/back-to-school/

69Disallow: /*/multistore/*

70Disallow: /ru/srr/

71Disallow: /in/web/emi/*

72Disallow: /chat/api/livechat/*

73Disallow: /sec/search/searchresultB2c/*

74Disallow: /sec/business/search/searchresult/*

75Disallow: *jsessionid=*

77User-agent: Yandex

78Allow: /

79Disallow: /ru/cdm/*

80Disallow: /*/search/

81Disallow: /ru/multistore/*

82Disallow: /*/c/p/

83Disallow: *jsessionid=*

84Clean-param: utm

85Clean-param: cid

86Clean-param: bvstate

87Clean-param: bvroute

88Clean-param: samid

89Clean-param: __BVSUBMISSIONPARAMETERS__&bvdisplaycode

90Clean-param: dclid

91Clean-param: frommarket

92Clean-param: guid

93Clean-param: _escaped_fragment_

94Clean-param: adobe_mc_sdid

95Clean-param: search

96Clean-param: searchvalue

97Clean-param: nm

98Clean-param: 0utm_00000000content

99Clean-param: action

100Clean-param: adobe_mc_ref

101Clean-param: AID

102Clean-param: ampampampamp

103Clean-param: ampamp

104Clean-param: yclid

105Clean-param: amp

106Clean-param: at_preview_token

107Clean-param: awc

108Clean-param: bvaction

109Clean-param: cjevent

110Clean-param: clid

111Clean-param: clr

112Clean-param: electricfrom

113Clean-param: email

114Clean-param: eucid

115Clean-param: from

116Clean-param: gbraid

117Clean-param: gclsrc

118Clean-param: hcb

119Clean-param: keyword

120Clean-param: mdid

121Clean-param: merchant

122Clean-param: msk

123Clean-param: nm

124Clean-param: nw

125Clean-param: offerId

126Clean-param: oTyp

127Clean-param: page

128Clean-param: productId

129Clean-param: products

130Clean-param: q

131Clean-param: ref

132Clean-param: refx

133Clean-param: ru_paid_ppc_yandex_none_ecommerce_smartbanner-cross-2019-ecom_pla_none_remarketingfrom

134Clean-param: sa

135Clean-param: segment

136Clean-param: showroom

137Clean-param: siteCode

138Clean-param: smartphonesawc

139Clean-param: soundbar-q-seriesmdid

140Clean-param: spm

141Clean-param: state

142Clean-param: tag

143Clean-param: trade-inmdid

144Clean-param: twclid

145Clean-param: uhd

146Clean-param: utmn_term

147Clean-param: zarsrc

148Clean-param: pid

149Clean-param: id

150Clean-param: lang

151Clean-param: rootpath

152Clean-param: anchor

153Clean-param: uid

154Clean-param: source

155Clean-param: tab

156Clean-param: type

157Clean-param: model

158Clean-param: locale

159Disallow: /africa_en/

160Disallow: /africa_fr/

161Disallow: /africa_pt/

162Disallow: /al/

163Disallow: /ar/

164Disallow: /au/

165Disallow: /at/

166Disallow: /ba/

167Disallow: /be/

168Disallow: /be_fr/

169Disallow: /br/

170Disallow: /bg/

171Disallow: /ca/

172Disallow: /ca_fr/

173Disallow: /cl/

174Disallow: /cn/

175Disallow: /co/

176Disallow: /hr/

177Disallow: /cz/

178Disallow: /dk/

179Disallow: /eg/

180Disallow: /ee/

181Disallow: /fr/

182Disallow: /de/

183Disallow: /gr/

184Disallow: /hk/

185Disallow: /hk_en/

186Disallow: /hu/

187Disallow: /in/

188Disallow: /id/

189Disallow: /iran/

190Disallow: /ie/

191Disallow: /il/

192Disallow: /it/

193Disallow: /sec/

194Disallow: /lv/

195Disallow: /levant/

196Disallow: /levant_ar/

197Disallow: /lt/

198Disallow: /my/

199Disallow: /mx/

200Disallow: /mm/

201Disallow: /nl/

202Disallow: /nz/

203Disallow: /n_africa/

204Disallow: /no/

205Disallow: /pk/

206Disallow: /latin/

207Disallow: /latin_en/

208Disallow: /py/

209Disallow: /pe/

210Disallow: /ph/

211Disallow: /ps/

212Disallow: /pt/

213Disallow: /ro/

214Disallow: /sa/

215Disallow: /sa_en/

216Disallow: /rs/

217Disallow: /sg/

218Disallow: /sk/

219Disallow: /si/

220Disallow: /za/

221Disallow: /es/

222Disallow: /se/

223Disallow: /ch/

224Disallow: /ch_fr/

225Disallow: /tw/

226Disallow: /th/

227Disallow: /ae/

228Disallow: /ae_ar/

229Disallow: /uk/

230Disallow: /uy/

231Disallow: /us/

232Disallow: /vn/

233Disallow: /bd/

234Disallow: /iq_ar/

235Disallow: /iq_ku/

236Disallow: /lb/

237Disallow: /mn/

238Disallow: /ru/srr/

239Disallow: /jp/

240Disallow: /ge/

241

242User-Agent: Sitereport

243Allow: /ru*

244Disallow: /

245

246User-agent: proximic

247Disallow: /in/

248

249#DaumWebMasterTool:4d08be0d0bd15c674e8ef34874ed14afbb8693a24e1a91f1cf630b03f6b02300:wLHQFbkWgWsLISzjhU4qLA==

250

251# Sitemap files

252Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/sitemap.xml

253Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/africa_en/sitemap.xml

254Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/africa_fr/sitemap.xml

255Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/africa_pt/sitemap.xml

256Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/al/sitemap.xml

257Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/ar/sitemap.xml

258Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/au/sitemap.xml

259Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/at/sitemap.xml

260Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/az/sitemap.xml

261Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/ba/sitemap.xml

262Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/bd/sitemap.xml

263Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/be/sitemap.xml

264Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/be_fr/sitemap.xml

265Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/br/sitemap.xml

266Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/bg/sitemap.xml

267Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/ca/sitemap.xml

268Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/ca_fr/sitemap.xml

269Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/cl/sitemap.xml

270Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/co/sitemap.xml

271Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/hr/sitemap.xml

272Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/cz/sitemap.xml

273Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/dk/sitemap.xml

274Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/eg/sitemap.xml

275Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/ee/sitemap.xml

276Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/fi/sitemap.xml

277Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/fr/sitemap.xml

278Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/de/sitemap.xml

279Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/gr/sitemap.xml

280Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/hk/sitemap.xml

281Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/hk_en/sitemap.xml

282Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/hu/sitemap.xml

283Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/in/sitemap.xml

284Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/id/sitemap.xml

285Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/iran/sitemap.xml

286Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/ie/sitemap.xml

287Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/il/sitemap.xml

288Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/it/sitemap.xml

289Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/kz_kz/sitemap.xml

290Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/kz_ru/sitemap.xml

291Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/lv/sitemap.xml

292Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/levant/sitemap.xml

293Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/levant_ar/sitemap.xml

294Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/lt/sitemap.xml

295Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/my/sitemap.xml

296Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/mx/sitemap.xml

297Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/mm/sitemap.xml

298Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/mk/sitemap.xml

299Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/nl/sitemap.xml

300Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/nz/sitemap.xml

301Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/n_africa/sitemap.xml

302Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/no/sitemap.xml

303Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/pk/sitemap.xml

304Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/latin/sitemap.xml

305Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/latin_en/sitemap.xml

306Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/py/sitemap.xml

307Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/pe/sitemap.xml

308Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/ph/sitemap.xml

309Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/pl/sitemap.xml

310Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/ps/sitemap.xml

311Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/pt/sitemap.xml

312Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/ro/sitemap.xml

313Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/ru/sitemap.xml

314Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/sa/sitemap.xml

315Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/sa_en/sitemap.xml

316Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/rs/sitemap.xml

317Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/sg/sitemap.xml

318Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/sk/sitemap.xml

319Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/si/sitemap.xml

320Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/za/sitemap.xml

321Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/es/sitemap.xml

322Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/se/sitemap.xml

323Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/ch/sitemap.xml

324Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/ch_fr/sitemap.xml

325Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/tw/sitemap.xml

326Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/th/sitemap.xml

327Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/tr/sitemap.xml

328Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/ae/sitemap.xml

329Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/ae_ar/sitemap.xml

330Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/uk/sitemap.xml

331Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/ua/sitemap.xml

332Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/uy/sitemap.xml

333Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/us/sitemap.xml

334Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/uz_uz/sitemap.xml

335Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/uz_ru/sitemap.xml

336Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/vn/sitemap.xml

337Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/iq_ar/sitemap.xml

338Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/iq_ku/sitemap.xml

339Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/lb/sitemap.xml

340Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/mn/sitemap.xml

341Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/jp/sitemap.xml

342Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/sec/sitemap.xml

343Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/global/business/sitemap.xml

344Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/sec/sustainability/main/sitemap.xml

345Sitemap:https://www.samsung.com/global/sustainability/main/sitemap.xml

346

347Host: www.samsung.com

348

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What do the bots actually get?

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

Partly. samsung.com’s robots.txt keeps GPTBot out of some paths, such as /*/business/search/, and lets it crawl the rest. GPTBot is OpenAI’s crawler for training data; blocking it doesn’t affect ChatGPT search, which uses OAI-SearchBot. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does samsung.com block ClaudeBot?

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

Does samsung.com block Google-Extended?

Partly. samsung.com’s robots.txt keeps Google-Extended out of some paths, such as /*/business/search/, and lets it crawl the rest. 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 samsung.com block PerplexityBot?

Partly. samsung.com’s robots.txt keeps PerplexityBot out of some paths, such as /*/business/search/, and lets it crawl the rest. PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find samsung.com?

Partly. samsung.com’s robots.txt keeps OAI-SearchBot out of some paths, such as /*/business/search/, and lets it crawl the rest. OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.