samsung.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, samsung.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot; it also published llms.txt.
Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.
- Panel
- top 1k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.samsung.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256e07ce06f3220d049…· view as recorded - The * group
- allows applies to every agent without its own group
Per AI bot, 2026-10-27
| User agent | Verdict | How |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | allows | named in its own group |
| OAI-SearchBot | allows | named in its own group |
| ChatGPT-User | allows | named in its own group |
| ClaudeBot | allows | through the * group |
| Claude-SearchBot | allows | through the * group |
| Claude-User | allows | through the * group |
| PerplexityBot | allows | named in its own group |
| Perplexity-User | allows | through the * group |
| Googlebot | allows | named in its own group |
| Google-Extended | allows | named in its own group |
| Applebot-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| CCBot | allows | through the * group |
| Bytespider | allows | through the * group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | allows | through the * group |
| Amazonbot | allows | through the * group |
Other signals
| Publishes /llms.txt | yes |
| Publishes /ai.txt | no |
| Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.json | no |
| Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta) | no |
| Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header) | no |
| Says ai-train=no in a Content Signal | no |
| Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header) | no |
| Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | no |
| Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | no |
| Sends noai / noimageai directives | no |
| Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge) | no |
llms.txt: "Samsung Electronics", 4,597 bytes, 31 links.
robots.txt as recorded sha256 279bf947dba46809…
User-agent: * User-agent: Googlebot User-agent: AdsBot-Google User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /*/business/search/ Disallow: /*/parking Disallow: /*/parking/ Disallow: /*/search/ Disallow: /*/system/* Allow: /uk/info/contactus/email-the-ceo/ Disallow: /*/info/contactus/email-the-ceo/ Disallow: /*/c/p/ Disallow: /de/aboutsamsung/inner-circle-2017/ Disallow: /ru/*search Disallow: /ru/cdm/* Disallow: /uk/*productcompare Disallow: /uk/wdc/* Disallow: /us/dealer/* Disallow: /us/epp/* Disallow: /us/support/service/agent/* Disallow: /us/business/search/ Disallow: /us/api/ Disallow: /us/trade-in/program-violation/ Disallow: /sg/ab/* Disallow: /*/?bvstate* Disallow: /*/_jcr_content/* Disallow: /*/galaxy-s10-buy-test/* Disallow: /*/connected-living/content-library/* Disallow: /se/info/privacy/officecctv/ Disallow: /au/referral/referred-friend/ Disallow: /*/common/review/ Disallow: /*/edm/ Disallow: /au/email/ Disallow: /au/emailtest/ Disallow: /*/testhome/ Disallow: /*/home_gnb/ Disallow: /*/home_hq/ Disallow: /*/home_3rd/ Disallow: /*/home_notag/ Disallow: /*/home_75/ Disallow: /*/home_50/ Disallow: /*/home_25/ Disallow: /*/speedtest/* Disallow: /us/business/new/* Allow: /in/multistore/* Disallow: /*/multistore/* User-agent: Yandex Allow: / Disallow: /ru/cdm/* Disallow: /*/search/ Disallow: /ru/multistore/* Disallow: /*/c/p/ Clean-param: utm Clean-param: cid Clean-param: bvstate Clean-param: bvroute Clean-param: samid Clean-param: __BVSUBMISSIONPARAMETERS__&bvdisplaycode Clean-param: dclid Clean-param: frommarket Clean-param: guid Clean-param: _escaped_fragment_ Clean-param: adobe_mc_sdid Clean-param: search Clean-param: searchvalue Clean-param: nm Clean-param: 0utm_00000000content Clean-param: action Clean-param: adobe_mc_ref Clean-param: AID Clean-param: ampampampamp Clean-param: ampamp Clean-param: yclid Clean-param: amp Clean-param: at_preview_token Clean-param: awc Clean-param: bvaction Clean-param: cjevent Clean-param: clid Clean-param: clr Clean-param: electricfrom Clean-param: email Clean-param: eucid Clean-param: from Clean-param: gbraid Clean-param: gclsrc Clean-param: hcb Clean-param: keyword Clean-param: mdid Clean-param: merchant Clean-param: msk Clean-param: nm Clean-param: nw Clean-param: offerId Clean-param: oTyp Clean-param: page Clean-param: product1 Clean-param: productId Clean-param: products Clean-param: q Clean-param: ref Clean-param: refx Clean-param: ru_paid_ppc_yandex_none_ecommerce_smartbanner-cross-2019-ecom_pla_none_remarketingfrom Clean-param: sa Clean-param: segment Clean-param: showroom Clean-param: siteCode Clean-param: smartphonesawc Clean-param: soundbar-q-seriesmdid Clean-param: spm Clean-param: state Clean-param: tag Clean-param: trade-inmdid Clean-param: twclid Clean-param: uhd Clean-param: utmn_term Clean-param: zarsrc Clean-param: pid Clean-param: id Clean-param: lang Clean-param: rootpath Clean-param: anchor Clean-param: uid Clean-param: source Clean-param: tab Clean-param: type Clean-param: model Clean-param: locale Clean-param: product2 Disallow: /africa_en/ Disallow: /africa_fr/ Disallow: /africa_pt/ Disallow: /al/ Disallow: /ar/ Disallow: /au/ Disallow: /at/ Disallow: /ba/ Disallow: /be/ Disallow: /be_fr/ Disallow: /br/ Disallow: /bg/ Disallow: /ca/ Disallow: /ca_fr/ Disallow: /cl/ Disallow: /cn/ Disallow: /co/ Disallow: /hr/ Disallow: /cz/ Disallow: /dk/ Disallow: /eg/ Disallow: /ee/ Disallow: /fr/ Disallow: /de/ Disallow: /gr/ Disallow: /hk/ Disallow: /hk_en/ Disallow: /hu/ Disallow: /in/ Disallow: /id/ Disallow: /iran/ Disallow: /ie/ Disallow: /il/ Disallow: /it/ Disallow: /sec/ Disallow: /lv/ Disallow: /levant/ Disallow: /levant_ar/ Disallow: /lt/ Disallow: /my/ Disallow: /mx/ Disallow: /mm/ Disallow: /nl/ Disallow: /nz/ Disallow: /n_africa/ Disallow: /no/ Disallow: /pk/ Disallow: /latin/ Disallow: /latin_en/ Disallow: /py/ Disallow: /pe/ Disallow: /ph/ Disallow: /ps/ Disallow: /pt/ Disallow: /ro/ Disallow: /sa/ Disallow: /sa_en/ Disallow: /rs/ Disallow: /sg/ Disallow: /sk/ Disallow: /si/ Disallow: /za/ Disallow: /es/ Disallow: /se/ Disallow: /ch/ Disallow: /ch_fr/ Disallow: /tw/ Disallow: /th/ Disallow: /ae/ Disallow: /ae_ar/ Disallow: /uk/ Disallow: /uy/ Disallow: /us/ Disallow: /vn/ Disallow: /bd/ Disallow: /iq_ar/ Disallow: /iq_ku/ Disallow: /lb/ User-Agent: Sitereport Allow: /ru* Disallow: / #DaumWebMasterTool:4d08be0d0bd15c674e8ef34874ed14afbb8693a24e1a91f1cf630b03f6b02300:wLHQFbkWgWsLISzjhU4qLA== # 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robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-28 | ok 200 | e07ce06f3220 |
Timeline of changes
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| No changes since the first observation (2026-10-26). | |
Reconstructed history (Common Crawl)
From Common Crawl's robots.txt captures: what CCBot was served, one crawl per quarter. A separate series from the daily observations above; a 403 here means Common Crawl was refused, not this ledger.
| Crawl | Host | State | GPTBot | OAI-SearchBot | ChatGPT-User | ClaudeBot | Claude-SearchBot | Claude-User | PerplexityBot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39 | www.samsung.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.samsung.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.samsung.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.samsung.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.samsung.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.samsung.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.samsung.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.samsung.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.samsung.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17 | www.samsung.com | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | www.samsung.com | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | www.samsung.com | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.samsung.com | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.samsung.com | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | samsung.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | samsung.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | samsung.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | samsung.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of samsung.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-27: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973493)).
API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/samsung.com