The Direct Index
Report · New York · scanned 2026-10-24

Indian Express

indianexpress.com is largely invisible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderCallWebsite

Ways to reach Indian Express directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

18 Murray St, New York 10007 · (212) 608-5555

Nearby, also direct

Places near Indian Express that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

AI assistants can't open Indian Express's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.

23.1%

15 of 65 points available

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agent-readiness level

4

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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 23 everyday questions about New York and named 160 places. Indian Express wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Indian Express compares

Where it stands

8,944 of 11,180 in New York

Top 80% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: German Bratwurst F, Iguazu F. Just below: Jeanne & Gaston F, Laila F.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML95%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours59%no
Have an llms.txt25%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 236,086 sites55%25%23.1%

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Businesses like yours

Businesses like Indian Express in New York

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in New York11,18052%34%23.1%
Sites built with WordPress in New York1,87361%37%23.1%

After the top fixes

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 840th of 11,180 in New York, up from 8944th.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. 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. How to fix it

  2. 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. How to fix it

  3. 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. How to fix it

  4. 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. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in New York. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · A plain fetch got http_403; a real browser got the page, so the scan continues on the rendered page. · What to paste

Owners

Own this business?

Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes. Show the details