That's maybe jumping to conclusion. I interpreted the sentence less literally and more like "in absence of rule, default to GoogleBot ones" So if you put a wi

That's maybe jumping to conclusion. I interpreted the sentence less literally and more like "in absence of rule, default to GoogleBot ones" So if you put a wildcard rule forbidding access and a specific one allowing access to GoogleBot, AppleBot will honour the wildcard one. That's how I would have coded it anyway: parse the rule for current agent string, if no rule applies, run it again with GoogleBot one before assuming that website does not contain restrictions.