The origins of robots.txt, or the “robots exclusion protocol,” can be traced back to the mid-1990s, during the early days of web spiders traveling the internet to read websites. Some webmasters became concerned about which spiders were visiting their sites. A file containing directions on which site sections should be crawled and which shouldn’t offered […]

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