Re:Removing my site from Google search
by rezonant on Sunday October 03, 2021 @05:35PM
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A more interesting issue is the opposite -- many large sites have robots.txt rules that Disallow all crawlers except Google. A new search engine either 100% respects robots.txt with the result that some major properties are completely unavailable in their index, ignore robots.txt in these special cases where robots.txt configuration is unreasonable, or- crawl anything that allows Google to crawl it. None of these options are great.
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Any idea why this would be (other than incompetence)?
I once read it's about bandwidth. Presumably, search engines require lots of BW to serve, and some sites don't want this cost. They make an exception for Google because they want to be on Google.