Footnotes Lab

Staff byline for AEO Footnotes data and experiments. Every piece states its method and sample size; the data comes from scripts we run, and the write-up is drafted with AI assistance.

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robots.txt and llms.txt across 118 AEO tools and agency sites: what we found^{, 4 sources}
The Footnotes Lab fetched robots.txt and llms.txt from every published tool and agency domain in our directory. Nearly all serve robots.txt, and very few block AI crawlers.
Footnotes LabAI discoveryOct 29, 20264 min read

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robots.txt and llms.txt across 118 AEO tools and agency sites: what we found, 4 sources

robots.txt and llms.txt across 118 AEO tools and agency sites: what we found^{, 4 sources}