# iGears Technology Limited
# AI crawler policy reviewed: 2026-09-26

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# --- Search engines ---
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# --- AI crawlers: ALLOWED, deliberately.
# These are the systems that cite us in generated answers. Blocking them removes
# us from that surface entirely. Do not "tidy" these lines away.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# --- Chinese-market AI (Bytespider / Doubao) ---
# ByteDance / Doubao (Chinese-language AI surface). Allowed deliberately on HK hosts.
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

# --- Bulk scrapers with no citation behaviour ---
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

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