xerox.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, xerox.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.xerox.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha256 105f24ae8a9451bc… · 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 1231f1b0dd56880e…

# Basic robots.txt file for Xerox.com

User-agent: * 
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /getfile/
Disallow: /go/xrx/XSL/
Disallow: /go/xrx/br/
Disallow: /go/xrx/cache_warmup/
Disallow: /go/xrx/ec/
Disallow: /go/xrx/fsma/ 
Disallow: /go/xrx/knowledge/
Disallow: /go/xrx/lib/
Disallow: /go/xrx/reg/
Disallow: /go/xrx/sysadmin/
Disallow: /go/xrx/wizard/
Disallow: /go/xrx/template/xrx_Error.jsp
Disallow: /go/xrx/template/009.jsp?view=Feature&ed_name=Promo_Carbonless_Web_blast
Disallow: /go/xrx/template/009.jsp?ed_name=Promo_Carbonless_Web_blast&view=Feature
Disallow: /pdf/
Disallow: /sso/
Disallow: /xrx-search/
Disallow: NULL
Disallow: /downloads/usa/en/e/End_Customer_Pres_5_Habits.pdf
Disallow: /perl-bin/formeng.pl?form=twitter_handle_registration
Disallow: /perl-bin/formeng.pl?form=blog_request
Disallow: /perl-bin/formeng.pl?form=business_facebook_page_registration
Disallow: /perl-bin/formeng.pl?form=video_channel_playlist_registration
Disallow: /about-xerox/sponsorship/buffalo-bills/*photos/
Disallow: *mobile-orph*

User-agent: vspider
Disallow: /go/xrx/
Disallow: /downloads/
Disallow: /Static_HTML/
Disallow: /gwa/
Disallow: /supplies/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /getfile/
Disallow: /pdf/
Disallow: /sso/
Disallow: /xrx-search/

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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 xerox.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/xerox.com