Turnitin

Operated by Turnitin. Last seen today.

What is Turnitin?

About

Turnitin is an intelligence gatherer operated by Turnitin. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us.

Detail

Website https://turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html

Type

Intelligence Gatherer
Searches for useful insights

Expected Behavior

The behavior of Intelligence Gatherers depends on the goals of their clients. For example, a client might be interested in brand sentiment, in which case the agent would crawl related social media or blog posts at a more frequent rate than unrelated websites.

Insights

Other Websites

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of top websites are currently blocking Turnitin in some way
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Access Control

Should I Block Turnitin?

Probably not, especially if you benefit from an intelligence gathering service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.

Using Robots.txt

User Agent Token Description
Turnitin Should match instances of Turnitin

You can block Turnitin or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.

# robots.txt
# This blocks Turnitin

User-agent: Turnitin
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can generate your robots.txt automatically using the free API or Wordpress plugin.

Get the Robots.txt