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Paper | Illyes: The case for the Robots Exclusion Protocol
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Title Paper | Illyes: The case for the Robots Exclusion Protocol
Abstract
In 1994, Martijn Koster (a webmaster himself) came up with the idea of robots.txt after
automatic clients (crawlers) were overwhelming his site. With more input …
In 1994, Martijn Koster (a webmaster himself) came up with the idea of robots.txt after
automatic clients (crawlers) were overwhelming his site. With more input from other
webmasters, the Robots Exclusion Protocol was born, and it was adopted by search
engines and other crawler operators to help website owners manage their server resources
easier. It functioned as a de facto standard for over 20 years.
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