Name: Indian Express
Telephone: (212) 608-5555

# Indian Express: Agent-Direct Score F (23.1%) Site: http://www.indianexpress.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/indianexpress.com Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Indian Express is largely invisible to agents. AI assistants can't open Indian Express's website, so they go by what other sites say about it. ## Direct links - Order directly: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delivery-executive-death-torn-10-rupee-note-dispute-suicide-10932776/?ref=newlist_hp (on the business's own site) - Phone: (212) 608-5555 - Address: 18 Murray St, 10007, New York ## Nearby, also direct Places near Indian Express that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Benares (100 m): https://directindex.org/r/benaresnyc.com - Saffron (160 m): https://directindex.org/r/asaffronthread.com - Tandoor Palace (510 m): https://directindex.org/r/tandoorpalacetogo.com - Tagmo (830 m): https://directindex.org/r/tagmonyc.com - Paisley (1000 m): https://directindex.org/r/paisleyrestaurantnyc.com ## What to fix first - **The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included.** (+22.5 points) A plain fetch was refused (http_403). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing - **No structured data for the business.** (+15 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No menu or price list found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **robots.txt blocks ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot.** (no points, but worth doing) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents ## Fix kit: What to paste Structured data (JSON-LD). Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. ```html ``` robots.txt. Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. ``` # Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them. # Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file. User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Allow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Allow: / User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / User-agent: Claude-User Allow: / User-agent: Perplexity-User Allow: / ``` ## Already right - **Ordering on your own site.** Agents can order without going through a marketplace. ## Where it stands 8804 of 11000 in New York. Top 80% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 95% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 59% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 25% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Benares (B, 96 m, https://directindex.org/r/benaresnyc.com); Saffron (A, 155 m, https://directindex.org/r/asaffronthread.com); Ane Bar & Restaurant (B, 480 m, https://directindex.org/r/anewallst.com); Tandoor Palace (C, 513 m, https://directindex.org/r/tandoorpalacetogo.com); Tagmo (C, 832 m, https://directindex.org/r/tagmonyc.com); Paisley (C, 995 m, https://directindex.org/r/paisleyrestaurantnyc.com); Atithi (C, 1077 m, https://directindex.org/r/atithirestaurantnyc.com); Paowalla (F, 1395 m, https://directindex.org/r/paowalla.com); Dhamaka (D, 1804 m, https://directindex.org/r/dhamaka.nyc); Baar Baar (D, 1884 m, https://directindex.org/r/baarbaarnyc.com). ## What assistants answer The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included. The assistants were asked 13 everyday questions about New York and named 69 places. Indian Express wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/new-york/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 224455 sites); This site 23.1%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/indianexpress.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Indian Express in New York | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in New York | 11000 | 52% | 34% | 23.1% | | Sites built with WordPress in New York | 1841 | 61% | 37% | 23.1% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in New York: Aquarelle seafood & mediterranean east village restaurant NYC (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/aquarellenyc.com); Bango Bowls (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/bangobowls.com); Benihana - New York West (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/benihana.com); Boulevard Pizza (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/boulevardpizza.com); China King (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/chinakingnc.com). With the three fixes above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included; No structured data for the business; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 91.5%. That would be 819th of 11,000 in New York, up from 8804th. ## The direct record What agents get for Indian Express, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/indianexpress.com - Book: none on record - Order: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delivery-executive-death-torn-10-rupee-note-dispute-suicide-10932776/?ref=newlist_hp (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested) - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: (212) 608-5555 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/indianexpress.com/order ## Can an agent transact? Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0). - UCP profile (/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol): no - ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): no - MCP server card (/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): no - Ordering vendor that takes agent orders (Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): no Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got http_403); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 0 | 25 | | Readable | 0 | 25 | | Actionable | 15 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Not measured for this scan. - JSON-LD for the business: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/indianexpress.com/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/indianexpress.com/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=indianexpress.com&force=1