NewsNow

What is NewsNow?

About

NewsNow is a web crawler that aggregates news headlines from thousands of sources across the web to provide comprehensive, real-time news coverage through the NewsNow news aggregation service. You can see how often NewsNow visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Search engine crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on several factors, including popularity, the rate at which its content is updated, and the website's overall trustworthiness. Websites with fresh, high-quality content tend to be crawled more frequently, while less active or less reputable sites may be visited less often.

Type

Search Engine Crawler
Indexes web content for search engine results

Detail

Operated By NewsNowUK
Last Updated 4 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

4%
4% of top websites are blocking NewsNow
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Country of Origin

United Kingdom
NewsNow normally visits from the United Kingdom

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Search Engine Crawlers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block NewsNow?

Probably not. Search engine crawlers power search engines, which are a useful way for users to discover your website. In fact, blocking search engine crawlers could severely reduce your traffic.

How Do I Block NewsNow?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

You can block NewsNow or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent String Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT) NewsNow/1.0
# robots.txt
# This should block NewsNow

User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /

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