Stores Welcome AI Agents Then Block Them
A Blend Commerce audit found bot protection turned away a shopping agent at 29 of 200 retailers, including several that allow AI crawlers in robots.txt.
· By Priya Venkataraman-Lutz, AI & Agents Reporter
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A Blend Commerce audit found bot protection turned away a shopping agent at 29 of 200 retailers, including several that allow AI crawlers in robots.txt.
· By Priya Venkataraman-Lutz, AI & Agents Reporter