# Google, Anthropic and Others to Support New AI Crawling Opt-out Standard

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> **Published:** 2026-10-30T12:00:00.000Z  
> **Category:** PRODUCT_LAUNCH  
> **Impact Score:** 90/100  
> **Primary Source:** [SiliconANGLE](https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/30/google-anthropic-and-others-to-support-new-ai-crawling-opt-out-standard)  
> **Canonical Citation:** [https://spidits.com/timeline/google-anthropic-and-others-to-support-new-ai-crawling-opt-out-standard](https://spidits.com/timeline/google-anthropic-and-others-to-support-new-ai-crawling-opt-out-standard)

## Executive Summary
Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to support an upcoming website crawling standard. The technology will enable website operators to block artificial intelligence developers from using their content to train their models.

## Why It Matters (Strategic Analysis)
Standardizing crawling exclusions under the Robots Exclusion Protocol shifts data harvesting governance from fragmented, multi-entry configurations to a centralized opt-out framework. This structural change establishes protocol-level boundaries between model training data acquisition and real-time retrieval tasks like Microsoft's AI Grounding.

## Key Entities & Companies
- **OpenAI**
- **Anthropic**
- **Google DeepMind**
- **Microsoft AI**

## Referenced Coverage & Sources
- **[SiliconANGLE](https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/30/google-anthropic-and-others-to-support-new-ai-crawling-opt-out-standard)**: Google, Anthropic and others to support new AI crawling opt-out standard — _Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to support an upcoming website crawling standard. The technology will enable website operators to block artificial intelligence developers from using their content to train their models. Many websites contain a..._

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