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Does usnews.com block ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity?

Yes. usnews.com's robots.txt blocks OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, so ChatGPT and Perplexity cannot read its home page, and it also blocks AI training.

Crawler by crawler

  • Google Search Googlebotallowed
  • Bing (also feeds ChatGPT search and Copilot) Bingbotallowed
  • ChatGPT search OAI-SearchBotblocked
  • ChatGPT reading a link ChatGPT-Userblocked
  • Perplexity PerplexityBotblocked
  • Claude search Claude-SearchBotallowed
  • Gemini (Google AI) Google-Extendedblocked
  • OpenAI model training GPTBot training onlyblocked
  • Anthropic model training ClaudeBot training onlyblocked

From usnews.com/robots.txt, home page path. Re-check it live

History

Same as shown above since 2026-09-28. We re-check it every few days.

We read each site's robots.txt as an ordinary visitor sees it and test the home page path (/) for each crawler, using the same rules Google documents (most specific group, longest matching rule). Some sites serve a different robots.txt to verified crawlers, and a site can allow the home page but block other sections, so treat this as what the public file says, not a guarantee.

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