Google’s Illyes: Robots.txt Covers Crawling, Not AI Training via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google's new robots.txt video says the standard covers crawling, not how content gets used, and recommends percent-encoding non-English robots.txt paths. The post Google’s Illyes: Robots.txt Covers Crawling, Not AI Training appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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