Can AI read expedia.com.au?

expedia.com.au allows the AI search crawlers in its robots.txt, so ChatGPT and Perplexity are able to read and cite it. Read live from the site's own robots.txt with Google's reference parser.

✓AI search crawlers can reach it
OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot are allowed.
?Homepage is readable by crawlers
Could not fetch the homepage (429), so I cannot tell how much text a crawler would get.
✓Has an llms.txt
Found /llms.txt. You can check it against the spec 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.

I could not fetch this site's homepage, so I cannot tell whether it sends readable text.

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