Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 个月前The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewallwww.searchenginejournal.comexternal-linkmessage-square229fedilinkarrow-up1648arrow-down15
arrow-up1643arrow-down1external-linkThe AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewallwww.searchenginejournal.comDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 个月前message-square229fedilink
minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 个月前And I’m assuming if the robots.txt state their UserAgent isn’t allowed to crawl, it obeys it, right? :P
minus-squareKissaki@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 个月前No, as per the article, their argumentation is that they are not web crawlers generating an index, they are user-action-triggered agents working live for the user.
minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 个月前Except, it’s not a live user hitting 10 sights all the same time, trying to crawl the entire site… Live users cannot do that. That said, if my robots.txt forbids them from hitting my site, as a proxy, they obey that, right?
And I’m assuming if the robots.txt state their UserAgent isn’t allowed to crawl, it obeys it, right? :P
No, as per the article, their argumentation is that they are not web crawlers generating an index, they are user-action-triggered agents working live for the user.
Except, it’s not a live user hitting 10 sights all the same time, trying to crawl the entire site… Live users cannot do that.
That said, if my robots.txt forbids them from hitting my site, as a proxy, they obey that, right?