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title: What an AI agent reads on Gosling Raymond · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/smh.com.au/agent-view?format=md
---

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# What an AI agent reads on Gosling Raymond

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 [smh.com.au](http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2014/OldShops/raymond-gosling-gentlemens-hairdresser.html), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

3,962

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

2

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

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: Old shops of Sydney. First 1,800 of 3,962 characters:

```
Old shops of Sydney MenuFacebookTwitter The old shops of sydney Ted the butcher McKenzie's hardware Raymond Gosling Gentlemen's Hairdresser Roger Shoe Repairs Ralph's Deli Rosebery Service Station Roseville Cinema Real Turkish Delight G.A Zink & Sons Bespoke Tailoring Frank's Fruit Market Raymond Gosling, a hairdresser for gentlemen: the days of legendary hotels, Abe Saffron and long hair for men are memories now. Photo: Steven Siewert Raymond Gosling Gentlemen's Hairdresser 'Some people are creatures of habit' Raymond Gosling Raymond Gosling Gentlemen's Hairdresser Orwell Street, Potts Point When Raymond Gosling arrived in Orwell Street in 1982, the salon was called "Denis de Paris". It was black and silver and low-ceilinged and Denis's clients sat in hydraulic cast-iron and leather dentist's chairs, bought from the Sydney Dental Hospital when it was modernising. "People come in and say, 'where can I buy a chair like that?' and I say, 'well, you can't any more'," says Mr Gosling, 69, who has run Raymond Gosling Gentlemen's Hairdresser since Denis went off to sell terrines in France. Mr Gosling has fiddled with the decor a little since taking over. First, he did it in Laura Ashley colours; later he wallpapered it. The two hydraulic chairs remain though and the floorboards underneath the most used chair are worn in a crescent shape — from the countless steps the barber has taken around up to 25 customers a day over 32 years. There are about 30 remaining customers who were originally pampered by Denis. "Some people are creatures of habit," says Mr Gosling, who was born in Bromley, England, migrated to Australia in 1973 and worked in the city — at Claude Coiffure in the old Royal Arcade under the Hilton Hotel and then for the Greek barber George Petrou in the Imperial Arca
```

 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 | 0 |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

No booking or ordering link found. An agent has nothing to act on.

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

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```