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title: What an AI agent reads on Indian Express · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/indianexpress.com/agent-view?format=md
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# What an AI agent reads on Indian Express

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. Below is what it gets from [indianexpress.com](http://www.indianexpress.com/), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

21,430

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

3

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot)

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: Latest News Today, Breaking News, India News, Top Headlines | The Indian Express · language en. First 1,800 of 21,430 characters:

```
Latest News Today, Breaking News, India News, Top Headlines | The Indian Express skip to content Sat, 24 October | Cloud Today's Paper Journalism of Courage SubscribeLogin HomeePaperPoliticsInvestigationsExplainedSportsOpinionIndiaLegalBusinessCitiesUPSCCinemaHealthWorldADVERTISEMENT MumbaiAttack on Tiger Shroff: On the run, shooters got updates via calls, messagesPolice suspect someone higher up the chain was watching news channels and alerting the shooters through messages and phone callsGolfGolfer Ojaswini Saraswat, 13, youngest to make the Women’s Indian Open cutIndia Gangster Himanshu Bhau held in US, efforts on to extradite himIndia Doctor moved to Odisha to treat Adivasis, now behind bars for anti-mining protestsIndia China breaking patrol patterns leads to face-off: Centre on ITBP chief’s remarkMarket Jio IPO fires up market, subscribed 22 times over as it draws record bidsBangalore Congress insiders behind ‘sting op’ on Siddaramaiah, says his minister son Yathindra ADVERTISEMENT Podcasts Rubio on India-US ties, cost of keeping cities clean, and Gadkari under pressure Listen 26:31 The Catch Up: Marco Rubio pushes for Venezuelan oil in India (22 October) Listen 03:26 Mounjaro brides, detecting the ‘ghost particles,’ and hunger kills toddler Listen 30:58 The Catch Up: Punjab CM Mann’s customs inspection (21 October) Listen 03:12 Tiger Shroff firing row, Mumbai’s salty groundwater, and FIR over social media posts Listen 35:25 Prev Next The RecapOver 100 detained in Delhi during protest against election panel chiefNDA faces Bihar test amid Grand Alliance divisions, Jan Suraaj entryDelhi High Court rejects Neha Bora’s plea against ‘peace bond’ noticeThey work from 4 am to feed Mumbai. Now, buses throw them out over 'smell' Kolkata Christians hit, dragged out of homes
```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | no |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | nothing |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 5 (ContactPoint, ImageObject, NewsMediaOrganization, Person, PostalAddress, QuantitativeValue) |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

| Link | Role | Where it goes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delivery-executive-death-torn-1](https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delivery-executive-death-torn-10-rupee-note-dispute-suicide-10932776/?ref=newlist_hp) | ordering | the business's own site |

Everything here comes from fetching the homepage once as a crawler. The [report](https://directindex.org/r/indianexpress.com) turns it into a score and a list of fixes, with code to paste.

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```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://directindex.org/#org","name":"The Direct Index","url":"https://directindex.org/","logo":"https://directindex.org/favicon.svg","email":"hello@directindex.org","founder":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https://directindex.org/#antonio","name":"Antonio Curado","sameAs":["https://x.com/ab_curado"]},"description":"Independent measurement of whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://directindex.org/#site","url":"https://directindex.org/","name":"The Direct Index","publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://directindex.org/scan?url={url}"},"query-input":"required name=url"}},{"@type":"WebAPI","name":"The Direct Index API","url":"https://directindex.org/openapi.json","documentation":"https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt","provider":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"}}]}
```