diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt index 4b9cc6a..1865026 100644 --- a/robots.txt +++ b/robots.txt @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ User-agent: cohere-ai User-agent: Diffbot User-agent: DuckAssistBot User-agent: FacebookBot -User-agent: facebookexternalhit User-agent: FriendlyCrawler User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: GoogleOther diff --git a/table-of-bot-metrics.md b/table-of-bot-metrics.md index fe6baa2..d1eed4b 100644 --- a/table-of-bot-metrics.md +++ b/table-of-bot-metrics.md @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ | Diffbot | [Diffbot](https://www.diffbot.com/) | At the discretion of Diffbot users. | Aggregates structured web data for monitoring and AI model training. | Unclear at this time. | Diffbot is an application used to parse web pages into structured data; this data is used for monitoring or AI model training. | | DuckAssistBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | DuckAssistBot is used by DuckDuckGo's DuckAssist feature to fetch content and generate realtime AI answers to user searches. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/duckassistbot | | FacebookBot | Meta/Facebook | [Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/) | Training language models | Up to 1 page per second | Officially used for training Meta "speech recognition technology," unknown if used to train Meta AI specifically. | -| facebookexternalhit | Meta/Facebook | [Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/) | No information. | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | | FriendlyCrawler | Unknown | [Yes](https://imho.alex-kunz.com/2024/01/25/an-update-on-friendly-crawler) | We are using the data from the crawler to build datasets for machine learning experiments. | Unclear at this time. | Unclear who the operator is; but data is used for training/machine learning. | | Google-Extended | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | LLM training. | No information. | Used to train Gemini and Vertex AI generative APIs. Does not impact a site's inclusion or ranking in Google Search. | | GoogleOther | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | Scrapes data. | No information. | "Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development." |