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Is google.com blocking AI crawlers?

Spyglasses reads google.com's robots.txt and reports, agent by agent, which AI crawlers and assistants it lets in. Check another domain below.

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Your robots.txt allows AI visitors and search crawlers. No issues detected.

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AI Placement Value Score

Tier 1: PremiumOrganic Authority: 88.2AI Impact Multiplier: 0.968

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What this means for google.com

google.com publishes a robots.txt file at https://google.com/robots.txt, and Spyglasses read it to see which AI crawlers and assistants it lets in. Its access status is green: google.com allows the AI crawlers and assistants Spyglasses checks for. No AI assistant is blocked from fetching its pages at answer time. It blocks no AI model trainers. Spyglasses scores google.com at 85.0 on the AI Placement Value Score, which puts it in tier 1, Premium.

Key facts

google.com does not block any of the AI crawlers Spyglasses checks in its robots.txt.
google.com serves its robots.txt from https://google.com/robots.txt.
Spyglasses rates AI crawler access for google.com as open.
google.com scores 85.0 on the AI Placement Value Score, tier 1 (Premium).

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