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by judge2020 1909 days ago
> They lock down their sitemap and make special exceptions for the Google bot:

Their robots.txt, on the other hand, is more restrictive of Googlebot:

https://stackoverflow.com/robots.txt

  User-agent: Googlebot-Image
  Disallow: /*/ivc/*
  Disallow: /users/flair/
  Disallow: /jobs/n/*
  ..