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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Large language models are trained on massive amounts of data, including the web. Google is now calling for “machine-readable means for web publisher choice and control for emerging AI and research use ...

For years, websites included information about what kind of crawlers were not allowed on their site with a robots.txt file. Adobe, which wants to create a similar standard for images, has added a tool ...