The robots.txt file of the personal blog of Google’s John Mueller became a focus of interest when someone on Reddit claimed that Mueller’s blog had been hit by the Helpful Content system and ...

Generative AI is breaking established internet etiquette to satisfy a bottomless appetite for training data. For example, Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Amazon-supported Anthropic ignore robots.txt to ...

Using robots.txt for managing data usage in LLMs is the wrong approach in this new age of generative AI products. Here's why. While Google is opening up the discussion on giving credit and adhering to ...

Robots.txt files can be centralized on CDNs, not just root domains. Websites can redirect robots.txt from main domain to CDN. This unorthodox approach complies with updated standards. Google's Gary ...

With AI eating the public web, Reddit is going on the offensive against data scraping. With AI eating the public web, Reddit is going on the offensive against data scraping. In the coming weeks, ...

There is this interesting conversation on LinkedIn around a robots.txt serves a 503 for two months and the rest of the site is available. Gary Illyes from Google said that when other pages on the site ...

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Robots.txt got some much-needed TLC last week, courtesy of Cloudflare’s latest update. Cloudflare’s new Content Signals Policy effectively upgrades the decades-old honor system and adds a way for ...