Most Major News Publishers Block AI Training & Retrieval Bots

BuzzStream analyzed robots.txt files for 100 top news sites. 79% block training bots, but 71% also block retrieval bots that ...
Searchenginejournal.com

The Modern Guide To Robots.txt: How To Use It Avoiding The Pitfalls

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 ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Is OpenAI Crawling LLMs.txt Files? Google Says It Won't.

Recently, Google said that no AI system is currently using the LLMS.txt file. But maybe some are starting to? OpenAI may be starting to discover and crawl LLMS.txt files on websites. While Google's ...

Google Added LLMs.txt To It's Web Sites For Other Reasons Than Discovery

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

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Last summer, Anthropic inspired backlash when its ClaudeBot AI crawler was accused of hammering websites a million or more times a day. And it wasn’t the only artificial intelligence company making ...
Search Engine Land

Robots.txt: SEO landmine or secret weapon?

Robots.txt tells search engines what to crawl—or skip. Learn how to create, test, and optimize robots.txt for better SEO and site management. Robots.txt is a text file that tells search engine ...
Search Engine Land

Meet llms.txt, a proposed standard for AI website content crawling

To meet the web content crawlability and indexability needs of large language models, a new standards proposal for AI/LLMs by Australian technologist Jeremy Howard is here. His proposed llms.txt acts ...