Google's Gary Illyes recommends using robots.txt to block crawlers from "add to cart" URLs, preventing wasted server resources. Use robots.txt to block crawlers from "action URLs." This prevents ...

OpenAI, the folks behind ChatGPT, have published information on its web crawler named GPTBot. You can now see if OpenAI is crawling your site, how much so, and you can disallow access to all or part ...

Reddit announced on Tuesday that it’s updating its Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt file), which tells automated web bots whether they are permitted to crawl a site. Historically, robots.txt file ...

With AI eating the public web, Reddit is going on the offensive against data scraping. With AI eating the public web, Reddit is going on the offensive against data scraping. In the coming weeks, ...

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 ...

Google has added a new crawler to its list of Google Crawlers and user agents, this one is named GoogleOther. It is described as a "generic crawler that may be used by various product teams for ...