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Rank 204 in the Majestic Million · checked October 19, 2026

Does go.com block AI crawlers?

Yes, 2 of 17. As of October 19, 2026, go.com's robots.txt blocks GPTBot and Google-Extended from the whole site. It keeps the other 15 out of parts of the site. 2 of them are named in a group of their own; the others follow its rules for every crawler.

Its /llms.txt returns an HTML page, not an llms.txt file. Its homepage is 89,894 tokens of raw HTML, 1,837 as Markdown (2.0%) and 81 pruned for the question “What is go.com?”.

Each crawler, by its robots.txt rules

From https://www.go.com/robots.txt (212 bytes, 3 user-agent groups), parsed per RFC 9309. Blocked: no path allowed. Partly blocked: some paths disallowed. The rule counts are those of the groups that apply.

CrawlerOperatorVerdictRules that applyDisallow rulesAllow rules
GPTBotOpenAIBlockedIts own group10
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
ClaudeBotAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
Claude-UserAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
anthropic-aiAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
PerplexityBotPerplexityPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
Perplexity-UserPerplexityPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
Google-ExtendedGoogleBlockedIts own group10
Applebot-ExtendedApplePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
CCBotCommon CrawlPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
BytespiderByteDancePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
AmazonbotAmazonPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
meta-externalagentMetaPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
cohere-aiCoherePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
DiffbotDiffbotPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
ContextFetchBot (us)ContextFetchPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)50
Checked October 19, 2026 by ContextFetchBot. Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended are robots.txt tokens that control use of content for AI, not separate crawlers.

Its homepage in tokens

https://www.go.com/, fetched once and converted locally with the ContextFetch engine. Tokens are characters divided by four, rounded up, the count the API reports in its X-Raw-Tokens and X-Output-Tokens headers.

Tokens of the go.com homepage as raw HTML, Markdown and pruned context, October 19, 2026
GroupRaw HTMLMarkdownPruned
Tokens89,8941,83781

Read go.com through ContextFetch

GET /r/ returns a page as Markdown, with X-Raw-Tokens and X-Output-Tokens headers. Add ?q= and a question to get only the passages that answer it. No key needed for 25 requests a day; a free key has 2,500 credits. go.com's robots.txt partly blocks ContextFetchBot: our index and crawls skip what it disallows, and a page you ask for is fetched once on your behalf (see the bot page).

curl -si "https://api.contextfetch.dev/r/https://go.com/"

How ContextFetchBot behaves · All sites and the method · Raw data

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