# /news robots policy — Class B (allow search + answer engines, block training-only)

# Traditional search
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /
User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
User-agent: BingPreview
Allow: /
User-agent: msnbot
Allow: /
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /

# AI answer engines (user-triggered retrieval, cites sources)
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /
User-agent: KagiBot
Allow: /
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

# Block training-only crawlers
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: claude-web
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

# Default
User-agent: *
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://aipulled.com/news/sitemap.xml