Apple has made some updates to its Applebot documentation, primarily explaining the distinction between the traditional Applebot crawler and the Applebot-Prolonged crawler. To be clear, Applebot-Prolonged just isn’t new, Apple launched it about a 12 months in the past however Apple wished to make clear how blocking Applebot-Prolonged impacts Applebot, if in any respect.
Apple defined that “information crawled by Applebot may be used to assist prepare Apple basis fashions powering generative AI options throughout Apple merchandise, together with Apple Intelligence, Providers, and Developer Instruments.”
Now, if you wish to block Applebot-Prolonged, Apple wrote, “Net publishers can opt-out from having their content material used to coach generative basis fashions by disallowing Applebot-Prolonged within the robots.txt file.”
However even for those who do block it, Applebot should be used for different Apple Search associated providers. Apple wrote, “Even for those who disallow Applebot-Prolonged, your web site directions should permit Applebot to crawl your webpages. In that case, your content material would stay discoverable by Highlight, Siri, in addition to different system-wide options on Apple units.”
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