UngodlyAudrey🏳️⚧️@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years agoSites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emergearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down10cross-posted to: tech@kbin.social
arrow-up1166arrow-down1external-linkSites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emergearstechnica.comUngodlyAudrey🏳️⚧️@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years agomessage-square32fedilinkcross-posted to: tech@kbin.social
minus-squareP03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 years agoYou think Google thought about robots.txt before they developed their search engine? Nah, it’s all public Internet, and they scraped away. A non-zero percentage of web sites will bother to follow these instructions, but it might as well be zero.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 years agoYeah I always assumed robots.txt only told them to hide it from search results, but Google still scrapes everything they can from you. The illusion they skipped over you
minus-squareThe Doctor@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoIf you look in the server logs, you can see what their spiders are grabbing.
minus-squareThe Doctor@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoVery early on, at least, their spiders respected robots.txt. I know there are folks that have all of the Big G in their robots.txt files on principle, might want to ask them if it works or not.
You think Google thought about
robots.txtbefore they developed their search engine? Nah, it’s all public Internet, and they scraped away.A non-zero percentage of web sites will bother to follow these instructions, but it might as well be zero.
Yeah I always assumed robots.txt only told them to hide it from search results, but Google still scrapes everything they can from you. The illusion they skipped over you
If you look in the server logs, you can see what their spiders are grabbing.
Very early on, at least, their spiders respected robots.txt.
I know there are folks that have all of the Big G in their robots.txt files on principle, might want to ask them if it works or not.