Cloudflare expands robots.txt with new AI content signals, giving publishers control over search, AI input, and AI training.

The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), commonly known as robots.txt, has been a web standard since 1994 and remains a key tool for website optimization today. This simple yet powerful file helps control ...

Shopify stores are now able to edit their robots.txt file, which gives owners more control over how search engines crawl their site. Tobi Lutke, Shopify CEO, broke the news this evening on Twitter ...

Cloudflare has launched its Content Signals Policy, a major update to robots.txt giving publishers new controls over how ...

John Mueller from Google did it again with his site and this time uploaded an audio file, in wav format, for his robots.txt file. You can go to it and listen to him read out his robots.txt rules in ...

Cloudflare is making it easier for publishers and website owners to control their content via a new policy.The announcement:Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today ...

(NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today introduced its latest way to help website owners and publishers gain more control over their content. Cloudflare will make it easy for any ...

In a recent LinkedIn post, Google Analyst Gary Illyes challenged a long-standing belief about the placement of robots.txt files. For years, the conventional wisdom has been that a website’s robots.txt ...

Robots.txt has been a thing since 1994, Shopify was founded in 2006 or so it is now 2021 and you can now edit your robots.txt file on Shopify. I guess this is the feeling Tesla owners will feel like ...

To meet the web content crawlability and indexability needs of large language models, a new standards proposal for AI/LLMs by Australian technologist Jeremy Howard is here. His proposed llms.txt acts ...

It seems like artificial intelligence is everywhere in our virtual lives. It's in our search results and our phones. But what happens when AI moves out of the chat and into the real world? NPR science ...