| My point is that they scrape the web for data because that is their core business. Im not sure why robots.txt was even brought up. So google respects this file? I say so what. Im arguing that while Google has free reign to scrape whatever data it wants, we indie devs are subject to the cider house rules. Sources can be found for just about any argument. So they are more or less useless. There is nothing wrong with self evident truths or reasonable hypotheses. That is how the modern world was created. A search engine that scrapes the web for data to make a good search engine. Who wouldve dreamed of it? We are not privy to what happens behinds closed doors at Google. They only work for their shareholders. Not us or the public good. Source that google does what it wants based on what it thinks the web should be. Google can change its mind on a whim https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-robots-txt-noinde... |