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Google Says LLMs.Txt Comparable To Keywords Meta Tag
Google's John Mueller compares LLMs.txt to the obsolete keywords meta tag, noting that no major AI services actually use the proposed standard and it's redundant since bots already access original content. Mueller highlights that LLMs.txt creates spam risks similar to cloaking and lacks adoption from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google.
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Summary
Google's John Mueller compares LLMs.txt to the obsolete keywords meta tag, noting that no major AI services actually use the proposed standard and it's redundant since bots already access original content. Mueller highlights that LLMs.txt creates spam risks similar to cloaking and lacks adoption from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google.
Tags
llms-txt · google · ai-crawlers · meta-tags · content-indexing · seo
Key entities
John Mueller (person, 0.95) · Simone De Palma (person, 0.9) · Google (organization, 0.99) · OpenAI (organization, 0.95) · Anthropic (organization, 0.95) · LLMs.txt (technology, 0.99) · robots.txt (technology, 0.98) · keywords meta tag (concept, 0.92) · cloaking (concept, 0.88)
Classification
analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/be@0.1.0, confidence 0.85, 15 Jul 2026