With AI reshaping the web, a "handshake deal" between some of the earliest pioneers of the internet that governs the internet ...

As interesting as this is, it seems pretty trivial to overcome. If a site has a robots.txt file, then scrape it into an intermediate location; if the scraping takes "too long", set aside the website ...

Are large robots.txt files a problem for Google? Here's what the company says about maintaining a limit on the file size. Google addresses the subject of robots.txt files and whether it’s a good SEO ...

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 ...