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Optional@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results

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Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results

pivot-to-ai.com

Optional@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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Kids today might not realize that, for about twenty years there, you could go to Google Search and find things you were looking for! Google now features a hilariously unreliable AI summary as the f…

cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/2178630

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    You should put these entries into your robots.txt file.

    To block the Google search crawler use for all of your site:

    User-agent: Googlebot

    Disallow: /

    To block the Google AI crawler use:

    User-agent: Google-Advanced

    Disallow: /

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      9 months ago

      You rock, thank you!

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      What if I made a static site using Github pages hosting? Will having a robots.txt in my root folder ward off Google bhoots (devils)?

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        Yes.

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