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Google's Illyes: Robots.txt Covers Crawling, Not AI Training

Google's new robots.txt video says the standard covers crawling, not how content gets used, and recommends percent-encoding non-English robots.txt paths.

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What to remember: In a video, Gary Illyes recalls that Google's parser recognizes only four rules: user-agent, allow, disallow and sitemap. Any line that the parser does not understand is dismissed in silence: a statement written in natural language, such as "don't crawl secret page", does not prevent [...] The article "Robots.txt et crawlers IA: Google recalls some fundamental rules" was published on the Abondance website.

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Technology in Business broke the news on Wednesday, October 21, 2026.
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