Review your robots.txt file: Ensure it contains only necessary directives and is free from potential errors or misconfigurations. Be cautious with spelling: While parsers may ignore misspellings, this ...
Search and user-triggered requests grew from 6.51% to 11.92% of AI crawl activity between the second and third quarters of ...
Robots.txt just turned 30 – cue the existential crisis! Like many hitting the big 3-0, it’s wondering if it’s still relevant in today’s world of AI and advanced search algorithms. Spoiler alert: It ...
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 ...
Perplexity was discovered to be actively bypassing blocks from websites to scrape content in 2024, and a new report shows that it has continued with increasing sophistication as the company defends ...
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 ...
Do you use a CDN for some or all of your website and you want to manage just one robots.txt file, instead of both the CDN's robots.txt file and your main site's robots.txt file? Gary Illyes from ...
The OpenAI rogue agent issue refers to a series of incidents where AI agents, which the company was running during training ...
AI copyright Australia: the ABC told parliament Tuesday that OpenAI and Anthropic have documented bypassing the robots.txt opt-out signals they publicly claim to respect -- making Anthropic's proposed ...
Reddit plans to do this by updating its robots.txt file, the "basic social contract of the web" that determines how web crawlers can access the site. Most nascent AI companies (including, at one point ...
John Mueller from Google did it again with his site and this time uploaded an audio file, in wav format, for his robots.txt file. You can go to it and listen to him read out his robots.txt rules in ...