# Best Tech Asia — https://besttechasia.com
# robots.txt — every search engine and AI crawler below is explicitly
# allowed to crawl the whole site (Allow: /). Nothing is blocked.

# ---- Google Search ----
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Allow: /

User-agent: Storebot-Google
Allow: /

# ---- Google AI: Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode ----
# Google-Extended is the control token for Gemini / Vertex AI grounding
# and training. Gemini itself is served by Googlebot + Google-Extended;
# both are allowed above and below. The "Gemini" and "Google-Gemini"
# tokens are listed explicitly as well so the allowance is unambiguous.
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Gemini
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Gemini
Allow: /

User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
Allow: /

# ---- Bing / Microsoft Copilot ----
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: msnbot
Allow: /

# ---- OpenAI: ChatGPT search, browsing and training ----
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# ---- Anthropic: Claude ----
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# ---- Perplexity AI ----
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# ---- Common Crawl (feeds many AI models) ----
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# ---- Apple: Siri, Spotlight, Apple Intelligence ----
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# ---- Meta AI ----
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

# ---- Amazon / Alexa ----
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# ---- xAI: Grok ----
User-agent: GrokBot
Allow: /

User-agent: xAI-Grok
Allow: /

# ---- DeepSeek ----
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Allow: /

# ---- ByteDance: TikTok / Doubao ----
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: TikTokSpider
Allow: /

# ---- Other AI crawlers and answer engines ----
User-agent: AI2Bot
Allow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Allow: /

# ---- Everyone else ----
User-agent: *
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://besttechasia.com/sitemap.xml
# Plain-text site summary for AI models: https://besttechasia.com/llms.txt