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Pure conjecture, the WSJ may have rules for index bots to control themselves when visiting the site. Or it’s a Brave Search index bug. I did get a summary of the OpenAI potential price drop, which was June 10’s news and continued into today. Brave Search did summarize the WSJ story, But didn’t l…

I guess posting on Brave’s forum may be more likely to fix it.

Can anyone that understands robots.txt see if it’s because of what they put in it? Cuz if it’s wsj’s choice I won’t bring it up with Brave. https://www.wsj.com/robots.txt

Just FYI this looks like it is not a new issue. See: Can't search up news on Brave browser for some reason - Brave Search - Brave Community

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Why does Brave not list any link to the Wall Street Journal in their index?

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lyricism (lyricism) June 12, 2026, 12:01pm 6

The robots.txt should allow Brave, as they allow Googlebot and Brave follows rules specified for Googlebot to ensure they are able to index the same content as Google.

https://safe.search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler

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