Google's webmaster channel is on a series of posts every hour around the Robots Exclusion Protocol - in short, an hour ago, Google announced that after 25 years of being a de-facto standard, Google is ...

Google announced this morning it has posted a Request for Comments to the Internet Engineering Task Force to formalize the Robots Exclusion Protocol specification after it being an informal ...

The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) — better known as robots.txt — allows website owners to exclude web crawlers and other automatic clients from accessing a site. “One of the most basic and critical ...

If there’s one thing that every commercial Web site wants, it is for the search engine spiders to crawl their sites and make them findable. But sites don’t always want to have their entire contents ...

Google’s main business has been search, and now it wants to make a core part of it an internet standard. The internet giant has outlined plans to turn robots exclusion protocol (REP) — better known as ...

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Google LLC is pushing for its decades-old Robots Exclusion Protocol to be certified as an official internet standard, so today it open-sourced its robots.txt parser as part of that effort. The REP, as ...

Google has proposed an official internet standard for the rules included in robots.txt files. Those rules, outlined in the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), have been an unofficial standard for the ...

Perplexity wants to change how we use the internet, but the AI search startup backed by Jeff Bezos might be breaking its rules to do so. The company appears to be ignoring a widely accepted web ...

One of the cornerstones of Google's business (and really, the web at large) is the robots.txt file that sites use to exclude some of their content from the search engine's web crawler, Googlebot. It ...