Google Search rests on a social contract: their bots can crawl our sites, they can index our sites, and they can show excerpts of our sites because
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@korrupt @inthehands
Then my question is: Will Google claim that their AI search isn't subject to the old conventions and use that data to train AI and serve those results in their new format?@RnDanger @inthehands well, we don’t know and we will see. My guess are separate scrapers (officially) and a lot of mistrust (are there others?) and masses of unidentified scrapers. Nevertheless, Google can better afford to play by the rules, since hey already own the largest index. Think also of Video etc. Will volume win the war? Or quality and freshness? Etc. Future is difficult.
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@albertcardona @inthehands It involves a couple steps, given the idiosyncrasies of the nginx regex support (no full pcre here!).
I keep two classes of blocked agents: (1) bad agents; and (2) scrapping false agents. A third regex unblocks agents that are false positives (due to (2)). -
Quick strategy discussion, for those who understand Google indexing and SEO:
If I want to yank a web site out of Google’s now-fully-extractive search, should I (1) disallow googlebot in robots.txt or (2) add `<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">` to all the page headers?
The goal here is not just to remove my contributions to the commons from Google’s results, but to •make Google aware• that sites are pulling consent. What will best do that?
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@inthehands If I understand your question correctly (sorry if it's not the case) I think that Anubis, the AI crawler protection, could be part of the solution. Not only would that work for Google, that would (or at least *should*) also work against other crawlers.
Another advantage is that it can work along your other solutions.
OTHO the drawback is that it would work against all crawler, so you would "disappear" from every search engine...
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