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minus-squarelokilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI can’t find any information about their search engine crawler. Isn’t it standard for search engines to label their crawlers or something?
minus-squaredarth_helmet@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIt’s conventional to do this, but a user agent string is entirely up to the client, and robots.txt is just a suggestion. So for the best results, you probably want to mock Google’s crawler because it’s suicidal to block that if you want search traffic.
minus-squareAtemulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agohttps://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html
I can’t find any information about their search engine crawler. Isn’t it standard for search engines to label their crawlers or something?
It’s conventional to do this, but a user agent string is entirely up to the client, and robots.txt is just a suggestion.
So for the best results, you probably want to mock Google’s crawler because it’s suicidal to block that if you want search traffic.
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html