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ParticleNewsBot

Particle is an AI powered aggregator that collects news from many sources.
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What is ParticleNewsBot?

Particle News uses ParticleNewsBot to index publicly accessible material for its news product. The operator says indexed items are attributed to the original source and include a link back to that source.

Particle News is an AI-powered product. Allowing the crawler can make reporting available inside that product, but Particle does not say the crawl trains a general-purpose model or places the same article in unrelated AI search products.

The published user agent is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ParticleNewsBot/1.0; +https://particle.news/bot). Requests come from US-based cloud infrastructure, and Particle warns that the addresses may change. It rate-limits concurrent requests and can adjust that rate for individual sites.

Particle documents robots.txt controls, including Crawl-delay, path exclusions, and a full block. One limitation is unusual: it reads the file at the root of the primary domain but says it does not support robots files on subdomains. Publishers with separate subdomain policies may need an additional server-side control.

Indirectly relevant

Is ParticleNewsBot relevant for AI search?

Indirectly. ParticleNewsBot has no AI product of its own, but its output can end up in the systems that AI answers draw on.

ParticleNewsBot collects content from many sites and redistributes it through its own product. Aggregated copies can end up in datasets that AI systems later learn from, and some aggregators are themselves sources that AI answer engines draw on.

How to handle ParticleNewsBot

Keep public stories open if inclusion in Particle News is useful to the publisher. Put subscriber-only, internal, or otherwise excluded sections behind access controls and add path rules where the URLs are still public.

Particle supplies this complete block:

User-agent: ParticleNewsBot
Disallow: /

Use Crawl-delay when request pressure is the issue. Do not build a permanent allow-list from current cloud addresses, and enforce a separate policy at the server if a subdomain cannot rely on Particle's primary-domain robots file.

Examples

  • A newsroom leaves public reports crawlable, excludes `/subscriber-preview/`, and checks that the resulting Particle item links back to the original story.
  • A publisher seeing too many simultaneous requests adds `Crawl-delay: 10` for ParticleNewsBot instead of removing the publication from Particle altogether.

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Particle says it visits publicly accessible content for the Particle News platform and attributes indexed material to its original source.

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