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 ...

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 ...

Google has sunset the robots.txt tester. Google has released a new robots.txt report within Google Search Console. Google also made relevant information around robots.txt available from within the ...

Now the Google-Extended flag in robots.txt can tell Google’s crawlers to include a site in search without using it to train new AI models like the ones powering Bard. Now the Google-Extended flag in ...