• 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.