Google Search Central on Twitter: "It's been 25 years, and the Robots Exclusion Protocol never became an official standard. While it was adopted by all major search engines, it didn't cover everything:
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GitHub - sjdirect/nrobots: The Robots Exclusion Protocol or robots.txt protocol, is a convention to prevent cooperating web spiders and other web robots from accessing all or part of a website which is
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Robots Exclusion Protocol : M. Koster ; G. Illyes ; H. Zeller ; L. Sassman : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
GitHub - BrandwatchLtd/robots: Support for Robots Exclusion Protocol, including parsing and matching against robot.txt directives.
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