The past, present, and future of robots.txt



In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary, Lizzi, and Martin from the Google Search team are joined by special guest David Price, a Product Counsel for Google. They discuss human initiated crawl requests vs. bot initiated crawl requests, the robots.txt file, and more!

Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr028-transcript

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8 thoughts on “The past, present, and future of robots.txt”

  1. Really great and very detailed discussion on Robots.txt. I think the current txt format is good and easily understandable so moving to json or any other format is not so good.

  2. "The not past, present, and future of clon-ing robots.txt human initiated crawl requests vs. bot initiated crawl requests, the robots.txt file, and more!" this kind of interlinking meta desc sound more future proof

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