Robots.txt Birthday Cake With Martijn Koster At Google

Jul 2, 2019 - 7:13 am 1 by
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Robots.txt Cake With Martijn Koster At Google

Here is a photo of the inventor of the robots.txt specification at Google (I think) with a robots.txt 25 years old birthday cake. Next to the cake is the revised proposed specification for the robots exclusion protocol. He posted it on Twitter and here are more photos:

This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share them with our readers.

 

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