A month ago, Google added LLMs.txt files to many of its developer and documentation sites including the Search developer docs ...

While Google is opening up the discussion on giving credit and adhering to copyright when training large language models (LLMs) for generative AI products, their focus is on the robots.txt file.

The robot exclusion standard is nearly 25 years old, but the security risks created by improper use of the standard are not widely understood. Confusion remains about the purpose of the robot ...

I have run into an interesting robots.txt situation several times over the years that can be tricky for site owners to figure out. After surfacing the problem, and discussing how to tackle the issue ...

In the latest episode of Ask Google Webmasters, Google’s John Mueller goes over whether or not it’s okay to block special files in robots.txt. Google’s John Mueller answers a question about using ...

The Internet Archive has announced that going forward, it will no longer conform to directives given by robots.txt files. These files are predominantly used to advise search engines on which portions ...