Can AI read sohu.com?

sohu.com 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
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.

From the census: This site was also in our 5,000-site AI-crawler census (Tranco rank 456, collected 2026-09-07). Its robots.txt blocked 11 training crawlers and 3 AI-search crawlers we track at that time. The same census found 2 malformed User-agent lines in its robots.txt, an invalid product token that silently becomes an unscoped rule. See the full pattern.

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