- Published on July 4, 2019
- In Global Tech
Google Open-Sources Robot.txt To Help Standardise Robots Exclusion Protocol
- By Disha Misal
Open-sourcing has become a popular practice now. Companies have realised the importance of the feedback that they get from open sourcing their projects and have experienced improvements by doing so. No matter how large the company is, open-sourcing projects brings insights into conceivable refinements.
Google has taken a strong stand in standardising the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP). Now, as a part of these efforts, the search engine giant has open-sourced its Google.txt Parser.
Need For REP
REP, in simple words, is a standard given to websites to communicate with the web robots. It tells them about the web sections that they should and should not scan and process. But despite the standards, not all web robots follow these standards. Some web robots scan the parts of the website that
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Disha Misal
Found a way to Data Science and AI though her fascination for Technology. Likes to read, watch football and has an enourmous amount affection for Astrophysics.
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