Primary description of web-crawl datasets, formats, and coverage; inclusion is not comprehensive.
commoncrawl.org Suggest correction ↓LINK TO IDEAS.
NOT JUST FEEDS.
Curated, directly clickable research, standards, practical guides and open-web communities. Human-selected links help us find each other without waiting for an algorithm.
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Know exactly where publishing stops and model training begins
Explore open WARC, WAT, WET datasets and publicly available crawl snapshots.
commoncrawl.org Suggest correction ↓Peer-reviewed study showing how dataset filters can disproportionately remove minority-related text.
aclanthology.org Suggest correction ↓Official guide separating useful publishing from unproven GEO tricks; Google does not use llms.txt for search.
developers.google.com Suggest correction ↓What is and is not required for appearance in AI Overviews and AI Mode.
developers.google.com Suggest correction ↓Check whether a URL appears in specific open crawl indices; not proof of model training.
index.commoncrawl.org Suggest correction ↓Official description of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User; separates possible training crawls from search discovery and user requests.
developers.openai.com Suggest correction ↓Primary documentation for looking up a URL in specific open crawls; an index match cannot establish training in a closed model.
www.commoncrawl.org Suggest correction ↓Publish on the independent web
Practical resources for publishing with permanent links
Start an independent personal website and build connections through human links.
indieweb.org Suggest correction ↓Publish on your own site first, syndicate links elsewhere.
indieweb.org Suggest correction ↓A real organization explaining a site-first publishing strategy.
www.internetsociety.org Suggest correction ↓Semantic metadata vocabulary for descriptive article pages; not an AI-inclusion switch.
schema.org Suggest correction ↓Standard format for listing site URLs to crawlers.
www.sitemaps.org Suggest correction ↓Accessibility standard helping more humans read and participate.
www.w3.org Suggest correction ↓Community guidance for curating useful links to independent writers and allowing readers to traverse an intentionally recommended web.
indieweb.org Suggest correction ↓Original standards-track specification for portable subscriptions that deliver publishing updates to different feed readers.
www.rfc-editor.org Suggest correction ↓Message boards & linked communities
Write useful answers and contribute to conversations that last
Learn about operating and participating in sustained, moderated discussions.
meta.discourse.org Suggest correction ↓Standard for link notifications between independent websites.
www.w3.org Suggest correction ↓Federated social protocol for cross-server participation.
www.w3.org Suggest correction ↓Keep a durable personal home for your public writing and references.
indieweb.org Suggest correction ↓Visibility, moderation & accountability
Examine reach constraints without confusing low engagement with censorship
Voluntary framework for assessing reliability, transparency, fairness and risk.
www.nist.gov Suggest correction ↓International normative framework discussing inclusion, human rights and diverse expression.
www.unesco.org Suggest correction ↓Documented eligibility and limitations, in contrast with folklore about hidden algorithm parameters.
developers.google.com Suggest correction ↓Actual crawler-access protocol; not a mechanism for requiring data inclusion.
www.rfc-editor.org Suggest correction ↓Official published repository describing retrieval, ranking and visibility enforcement; code versions matter, and old engagement weights should not be treated as permanent.
github.com Suggest correction ↓Observed U.S. search behavior in 2025: 8% clicked conventional results with AI summary versus 15% without; not a causal experiment.
www.pewresearch.org Suggest correction ↓Preservation & attribution
Keep work reachable, citable, backed up and correctable
2024 measurement of web-page and link disappearance, with methodology.
www.pewresearch.org Suggest correction ↓Practical model for backups, integrity checks and archive governance.
www.ndsa.org Suggest correction ↓How to request page captures; capture is not universal or guaranteed.
archivesupport.zendesk.com Suggest correction ↓Public source-code preservation and persistent references.
www.softwareheritage.org Suggest correction ↓How scholarly registration maintains lasting work identifiers; membership required.
www.crossref.org Suggest correction ↓Foundational research on findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable digital research objects.
www.nature.com Suggest correction ↓Human representation and research
Seek broader voices and test how a dataset can leave some out
Documented disparate effects from blocklist filtering in one prominent dataset.
aclanthology.org Suggest correction ↓Human-rights, culture and language considerations for AI governance.
www.unesco.org Suggest correction ↓Find scholarly studies and trace original research rather than reposted summaries.
help.openalex.org Suggest correction ↓Improve participation for people with different access needs.
www.w3.org Suggest correction ↓Direct discovery without search
Create real linking paths from people to people
Original URL on your site plus cited copies and links in relevant channels.
indieweb.org Suggest correction ↓Notify sites about genuine references to them; implement with abuse protections.
www.w3.org Suggest correction ↓Open federation for distribution beyond a single platform.
www.w3.org Suggest correction ↓Practical example of a hub-and-spoke content distribution strategy.
www.internetsociety.org Suggest correction ↓Check and maintain the public web
Find and repair broken links, improve accessibility, and maintain credible independent resources
Inspect broken links, fragments and redirects so readers can keep following citations.
validator.w3.org Suggest correction ↓Read the tool documentation before running comprehensive local or site-wide link audits.
github.com Suggest correction ↓Official introduction to accessible site reviews, combining practical tools and human checks.
www.w3.org Suggest correction ↓Find maintained specifications for linking independent sites through feeds, identity and mentions.
spec.indieweb.org Suggest correction ↓KNOW A LINK WE
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Source-verified open-web references
Added three original references about AI-summary click observations, Atom syndication and human-curated blogrolls after comparing two contributed research reports with primary documentation.
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Added official OpenAI crawler documentation, Common Crawl CDXJ index guidance, and the source repository for X recommendation systems; these are editorial references, not proof of individual model-training inclusion or of shadowbanning.
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Added the Site Stewardship category with four links to W3C and IndieWeb tools/specifications for checking links, accessibility and independent publishing.
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