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WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A large-scale study of robots.txt
Search engines largely rely on Web robots to collect information from the Web. Due to the unregulated open-access nature of the Web, robot activities are extremely diverse. Such c...
Yang Sun, Ziming Zhuang, C. Lee Giles
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A larger scale study of robots.txt
A website can regulate search engine crawler access to its content using the robots exclusion protocol, specified in its robots.txt file. The rules in the protocol enable the site...
Santanu Kolay