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The robots exclusion standard, also known more commonly as Robots.txt, is a text file present in the root directory of a website. The Robots.txt file is a convention created to direct the activity of search engine crawlers or web spiders. The file tells the search engine crawlers which parts to web and which parts to leave alone in a website, differing between what is viewable to the public and what is viewable to the creators of the website alone. A Robots.txt file is frequently used by search engines to categorize and archive web pages, or by webmasters to proofread source codes.