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Robots.txt and AI crawlers: Google recalls a few fundamental rules - Abondance
Translated title. Original: Robots.txt et crawlers IA : Google rappelle quelques règles fondamentales - Abondance
The document discusses how Google's robots.txt parser works, emphasizing it reads only four rules (user-agent, allow, disallow, sitemap) and ignores the rest; it notes formatting matters, comments are ignored, and non-ASCII characters must be encoded in URLs. It also covers AI crawlers, how to block them, and mentions a YouTube video and the 'Non-Canonical Cabinet' series with Google personnel.