• Ascend910
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    9 months ago

    This is a very interesting read. It is very rarely people on the internet agree to follow 1 thing without being forced

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      9 months ago

      Loads of crawlers don’t follow it, i’m not quite sure why AI companies not following it is anything special. Really it’s just to stop Google indexing random internal pages that mess with your SEO.

      It barely even works for all search providers.

      • General_Effort@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        The Internet Archive does not make a useful villain and it doesn’t have money, anyway. There’s no reason to fight that battle and it’s harder to win.