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title: What an AI agent reads on Đông Phương Tofu · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/vegguide.org/agent-view?format=md
---

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# What an AI agent reads on Đông Phương Tofu

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 [vegguide.org](http://www.vegguide.org/), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

3,220

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

0

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: VegGuide.org has been shut down. First 1,800 of 3,220 characters:

```
VegGuide.org has been shut down VegGuide.org has been shut down VegGuide.org has been shut down. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the site as well as to all of our nonprofit partners! So long and thanks for all the mock fish. Alternatives Check out HappyCow. They have worldwide restaurant and shopping listings, as well as lots of other information. You might also find Google Maps helpful. Try searching for "vegan food near me". And also check out Yelp for restaurant listings and reviews. Why? VegGuide was created back in 2002 to fill what I (Dave Rolsky, the site creator) and several others saw as a gap in online services. There were also some other motivations you can read about in greater detail if you're interested. The site did get some traction and did have quite a bit usage, particularly from 2008-2015, when the bulk of the entries currently on the site were added. However, traffic to the site was declining for many years by the time it was shut down in late 2019. But even more importantly, contributions to the site had also declined, so the data on the site was becoming increasingly stale and out of date. My feeling is that the site was that the site had become a net negative because it often directed people to businesses that no longer exist. This is especially true outside of North America, but even in North America most of the listings were old and not well-maintained. I think there are a number of factors that led to VegGuide becoming much less relevant. Probably first and foremost is the rise of mobile devices and apps. A huge amount of people's internet activity has moved to their phones and apps. We never had a full-featured app and we didn't have a mobile-friendly web design, all of which certainly hurt usage quite a bit. In addition, very wel
```

 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/vegguide.org) 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"}}]}
```