diff --git a/crawlers.py b/crawlers.py
index 0d7e16997..2243d037b 100644
--- a/crawlers.py
+++ b/crawlers.py
@@ -128,7 +128,8 @@ def blocked_user_agent(calling_domain: str, agent_str: str,
         # unless this is a news instance or if it is in the allowed list
         bot_strings = ('bot/', 'bot-', '/bot', '/robot', 'gptbot',
                        '-ai/', ' ai/', '-ai ', ' ai ', 'spider/',
-                       'externalhit/', 'chatgpt')
+                       'externalhit/', 'chatgpt', 'google',
+                       'anthropic')
         contains_bot_string = False
         for bot_str in bot_strings:
             if bot_str in agent_str_lower: