Does AI recommend MSC Cruises?
msccruises.com in cruise lines: how often Gemini, Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT name it next to Royal Caribbean, its top competitor, which sites the answers cite, and whether AI crawlers can read the site.
19%
of AI answers name MSC Cruises
Royal Caribbean: 47%. Rank 9 of 68 brands tracked.
MSC Cruises vs Royal Caribbean, engine by engine
Named most by Google AI Overviews (22%), least by ChatGPT (16%). The grey tick is the typical (median) brand of the category.
Questions where Royal Caribbean is named and MSC Cruises is not
- “Best cruise line for a multigenerational family with grandparents and young kids”
- “What is the best cruise line for first-time cruisers?”
56 more questions like these in this check. The snapshot finds them all for MSC Cruises against up to 5 competitors, on 50 buyer questions asked 3 times in each engine, with the sites to get listed on and 5 fixes.
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Is MSC Cruises named, and where?
- Yes. MSC Cruises is named in 19% of the answers across Gemini, Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT.
- It ranks 9 of 68 brands we track in cruise lines.
- In list answers it shows up at position 2.9 on average in ChatGPT (1 = first).
The category baseline
From the AI Citation Index (68 brands tracked in cruise lines, Week 41).
2%
The typical brand
47%
The category leader
19%
MSC Cruises, above typical
See the full cruise lines index · MSC Cruises's weekly trend
The sites the answers cite
The sites cited most in AI answers about cruise lines, all engines. Being listed, reviewed or discussed on these is the shortest path into the answers.
- cruisecritic.com5.0% of citations
- reddit.com4.6% of citations
- youtube.com4.5% of citations
- royalcaribbean.com4.1% of citations
- facebook.com3.3% of citations
- ncl.com2.5% of citations
- virginvoyages.com2.0% of citations
- princess.com1.7% of citations
Can AI crawlers read msccruises.com?
Nothing we could test stops the AI engines from reading the site; part of the check could not run (marked below). Checked Nov 3, 2026.
| Crawler | What it feeds | robots.txt |
|---|---|---|
| OAI-SearchBot | ChatGPT search, the pages it cites | Allowed |
| GPTBot | OpenAI model training only | Allowed |
| Googlebot | Google Search and Google AI Overviews | Allowed |
| Google-Extended | Gemini answers and training | Allowed |
| ClaudeBot | Claude | Allowed |
| Firewall | Akamai in front of the site | Could not test |
| Text without JavaScript | 0 words in the raw homepage HTML | Could not test |
The site has no robots.txt, so every crawler is allowed.
Nothing to fix in what we could test. The rows marked "Could not test" need a manual look: open your homepage with JavaScript off, and check your bot protection settings.
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