Can AI read ebooks.com?

ebooks.com allows the AI search crawlers in its robots.txt, but the server's answer to a test request that named a crawler was inconclusive, so this check cannot say whether ChatGPT and Perplexity are able to read it. Read live from the site's own robots.txt with Google's reference parser, plus a user-agent test at the server.

?AI search crawlers can reach it
OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot are allowed in robots.txt. The server turned away this checker's test requests even when they named no crawler, so the edge test tells nothing about the AI crawlers.
✓Homepage is readable by crawlers
The page ships real text in its HTML, so an AI crawler can read it.
✗Has an llms.txt
No /llms.txt. It is an emerging, optional convention, not required to be cited today. You can generate one at https://ai-visibility.lastminutedealshq.com/llms-txt
About the crawlers named here: OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot. Each page has what the vendor says it does, the robots.txt lines, how many of the top 5,000 sites block it and how to verify a request.

What an undecided result means. The server turned away this checker's own requests even with no crawler named, so the edge test tells nothing about the AI crawlers. 10 of the 119 sites in my 5,000-site census that refused a request naming an AI search crawler on September 23 did the same. Your server log settles it: look for OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot and the status they got. How the census test worked.

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