#saucenao — Public Fediverse posts

I'm really not happy with how the #antitrust case went against #Google. The fed should've targetted its real #monopoly in #browser technology and video hosting via #YouTube.

As much as I hate to admit it, Google does have a point when it defended itself from accusations of being a monopolist in #search. Users can easily change their default engine, and I've done it always when I install a browser which has Google as its default. In fact I find #DuckDuckGo which is based in #Bing to be better sometimes in web search, and a 100x better in image search. I only use Google for its reverse image search, but even then I complement it with #TinEye and #SauceNAO.

This decision is not only an insult to the users' intelligence but also a distraction from real issues.

I guess the only good thing that can come out of this is that #Mozilla may be forced to use another default search for #Firefox, which means less funding. Could help eventually defeat Mozilla's monopoly on "alternative browsers"... ​:seija_coffee:​

#openweb

Hmm I probably have the most ridiculous #robotstxt for a #Misskey instance right now lol. I just want to let #Mojeek and #Marginalia crawl #Makai and make sure to keep out #Google and the AI scrapers... ​:satrithink:​

If there are other user-agents of independent #searchengines I should allow in https://makai.chaotic.ninja/robots.txt, please let me know! I'm actually searching #SauceNAO, #TinEye, and #IQDB's #useragent so I can let them fetch our media for their reverse image search.

User-Agent: MojeekBot
User-Agent: FeedFetcher-Mojeek
User-Agent: search.marginalia.nu
Allow: /
Allow: /notes
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /my/

User-Agent: *
User-Agent: Googlebot
User-Agent: Google-Extended
User-Agent: GoogleOther
User-Agent: AdsBot-Google
User-Agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-Agent: Mediapartners-Google
User-Agent: CCBot
User-Agent: ChatGPT-User
User-Agent: GPTBot
User-Agent: Omgilibot
User-Agent: omgili
User-Agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Twitterbot
User-Agent: cohere-ai
User-Agent: anthropic-ai
User-Agent: Bytespider
User-Agent: Amazonbot
User-Agent: Applebot
User-Agent: PerplexityBot
User-Agent: YouBot
User-Agent: AwarioRssBot
User-Agent: AwarioSmartBot
User-Agent: ClaudeBot
User-Agent: Claude-Web
User-Agent: DataForSeoBot
User-Agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-Agent: ImagesiftBot
User-Agent: magpie-crawler
User-Agent: Meltwater
User-Agent: peer39_crawler
User-Agent: PiplBot
User-Agent: Seekr
Disallow: /

# todo: sitemap