Quick strategy discussion, for those who understand Google indexing and SEO:

If I want to yank a web site out of Google’s now-fully-extractive search, should I (1) disallow googlebot in robots.txt or (2) add `<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">` to all the page headers?

The goal here is not just to remove my contributions to the commons from Google’s results, but to •make Google aware• that sites are pulling consent. What will best do that?

2/2

Same question as the previous post, except for Wkipedia. What would you like to see them do to send a shot across the bow?

Or…well, it’s Wikipedia. Maybe more like a shot to the hull.

3/2

instead of no-index ―because this would affect all search engines, not just Google― isn’t there a way to target Google specifically in robots.txt?

there should be a list of all the major techbros crawlers ―Google, Microslop, Facebook, Amazon, X, etc.

@inthehands

@blogdiva
I believe that my various name=“___” values specifically target Google.

Based on what I’ve read, blocking them in robots.txt will only stop them from •updating• their scrape, whereas noindex means “do not use.” (I have long blocked their LLM-specific bots in robots.txt.)