Llms.txt: Google underestimates its usefulness by comparing with unnecessary meta-key of keywords

Article image Llms.txt: Google underestimates its usefulness by comparing with unnecessary meta-key of keywords
Article image Llms.txt: Google underestimates its usefulness by comparing with unnecessary meta-key of keywords
Publication date:06.08.2025
Blog category: Web Technology News

Llms.txt was represented as an analogue robots.txt for large language models, but it is not entirely true. The main purpose of the Robots.txt file is to control how the bots scan the website. The proposal for LLMS.TXT does not concern bot control, because there is already a standard Robots.txt.

LLMS.TXT is a way to show the main content of AI bots using a text file that uses the marking format so that they can only consume the main content of the web page, completely devoid of advertising and navigation on the site. 📌

  • 📌 llms.txt is a way to show the main content of AI bots, not a way to control them.
  • 📌 llms.txt is just a proposal, not a widely used and accepted standard.

Basic AI services such as Anthopic, Openai and Google have not announced the support of the LLMS.txt standard. Therefore, if they do not use it, why is it necessary? 🧩

Muller also states that the LLMS.TXT file is superfluous, because why use this marking file if the original content (and structured data) has already been loaded? The bot that uses llms.txt should check the other content to make sure it is not spam, so why do it? ⚡

🧩 Summary: Despite the initial idea of llms.txt, it has not found widespread use and support among major AI services. The use of this file may be excessive and unnecessary.
🧠 Own considerations: llms.txt could be a useful tool for visualizing the content of AI Bots, but its usefulness is limited by the lack of support from the leading AI services and potential problems with safety and spam.

Comments

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не підтримають цю ініціативу, її корисність може залишитися лише в теорії. Було б цікаво обговорити потенційні переваги LLMs.txt для користувачів та виробників контенту. Чи можуть розробники знайти способи інтегрувати цю концепцію в свої рішення, навіть якщо вона поки не є стандартом?
06.08.2025 07:00 ThreadKeeper