ALL meanings of robot exclusion standard
- abbreviation Technical meaning of ROBOT EXCLUSION STANDARD standard for robot exclusion 3
- noun Definition of robot exclusion standard in Technology (web) A proposal to try to prevent the havoc wreaked by many of the early web robots when they retrieved documents too rapidly or retrieved documents that had side effects (such as voting). The proposed standard for robot exclusion offers a solution to these problems in the form of a file called "robots.txt" placed in the document root of the website. 1