{"slug": "google-blocks-yandex", "title": "Google blocks Yandex", "summary": "Google's robots.txt file explicitly blocks Yandex, according to a Medium post by nikurusov titled \"Google blocks Yandex: A Tale of Two robots.txt Files.\" The blocking was noted by a blogger who looked into Google's robots.txt and found the Yandex restriction, then criticized the Medium post for lacking substantive explanation.", "body_md": "larrasket\n\nI really hate slop writing. I was looking at Google's robots.txt today, found that Google explicitly blocks Yandex, so I decided to look into why, I found [Google blocks Yandex: A Tale of Two robots.txt Files](https://medium.com/@nikurusov/google-blocks-yandex-a-tale-of-two-robots-txt-files-c99bf8eb7529), and I was expecting a \"tale\". The article is just a small disappointing slop. I miss when even the shortest low-quality blogposts on the internet would have been at least some kind of genuine thoughts #[LLM](https://lr0.org/blog/t/llm/#y4p7m3x6q9z2) [\\[permlink\\]]", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-blocks-yandex", "canonical_source": "https://lr0.org/microblog/2026-09-16-1/", "published_at": "2026-09-16 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-19 20:52:19.725300+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-crawlers"], "entities": ["Google", "Yandex", "nikurusov", "Medium"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-blocks-yandex", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-blocks-yandex.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-blocks-yandex.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-blocks-yandex.jsonld"}}