techtarget.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, techtarget.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot.

Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.

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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.techtarget.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha256 847d0a5f45fbb789… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 7b77d0ff5436e34c…

User-agent: *
Disallow: /_mm/
Disallow: /_notes/
Disallow: /_baks/
Disallow: /MMWIP/
Disallow: /html/privacy_partners_0-c.html
Disallow: /html/privacy_partners_d-h.html
Disallow: /html/privacy_partners_i-n.html
Disallow: /html/privacy_partners_o-s.html
Disallow: /html/privacy_partners_t-z.html

User-agent: googlebot
Disallow: *.csi

robots.txt versions

Timeline of changes

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.

Evidence

Every daily observation of techtarget.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/techtarget.com