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Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 4 months ago by homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ColinHayhurst@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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: /

[–] Snowcano@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago

You rock, thank you!

[–] jamyang@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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)?