Robots Exclusion Protocol
The Robots Exclusion Protocol is a standardized communication protocol that enables website owners to instruct web crawlers and search engine bots which areas of a site should not be accessed or indexed, thereby regulating automated retrieval of web content.
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RepRobots.txt Protocol
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Bo Cheng, Guobin Shen, Jie Liu et al. · 2014 · 49 citations
Determining Bias to Search Engines from Robots.txt
Yang Sun, Ziming Zhuang, C. Lee Giles · 2007 · 44 citations
A large-scale study of robots.txt
Yang Sun, Ziming Zhuang, C. Lee Giles · 2007 · 43 citations
The Ethicality of Web Crawlers
Yang Sun, C. Lee Giles · 2010 · 39 citations
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Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh
1 publications · 17 citations
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Pennsylvania State University
State College, United States
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10 publications
336 citations
Yahoo (United States)
Sunnyvale, United States
1 h-index
4 publications
68 citations

Mountain View College
Dallas, United States
1 h-index
1 publications
39 citations

Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, United States
1 h-index
2 publications
98 citations
Google (United States)
Mountain View, United States
1 h-index
1 publications
39 citations

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, United States
1 h-index
1 publications
49 citations
Yahoo (United Kingdom)
London, United Kingdom
1 h-index
4 publications
68 citations
University College London
London, United Kingdom
1 h-index
3 publications
78 citations
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JIS · 1 publications · 26 citations
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