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llms txt
web crawling
Google's Mueller Says llms.txt Won't Guide LLM Recommendations
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June 17, 2026
6.2
Relevance Score
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Products & Tools
llms txt
web crawling
Google's Mueller Says llms.txt Won't Guide LLM Recommendations
|
June 17, 2026
6.2
Relevance Score
techjuice.pk
· rights & takedowns
Quick Summary
John Mueller, Google's Senior Search Analyst, told the Google podcast Search Off the Record that
llms.txt
files cannot be used by large language model systems to differentiate which website to surface, saying "It's basically you're telling these systems, like, I have the best website ever." (reported by Search Engine Journal and TechJuice). Mueller added a narrow use case:
llms.txt
may be helpful once an agent is already on a site to navigate or finish a task. Independent telemetry from Ahrefs supports low impact: Ahrefs analysed 137,000 domains and reported
llms.txt
files received zero requests in May 2026 and only
of domains published the file. Industry coverage notes Chrome Lighthouse added an
llms.txt
audit while Google documentation labeled such files nonessential for generative search (Ahrefs, SEJ).
What happened
John Mueller, Google's Senior Search Analyst, said on the Google podcast Search Off the Record that
llms.txt
files cannot be relied on by LLM systems to decide which website to surface, and that the files are self-reported and therefore not a differentiator, according to reporting by Search Engine Journal and TechJuice. Mueller was quoted saying, "It's basically you're telling these systems, like, I have the best website ever. And here are all of the pages that everyone must go to." He also described a narrow operational role: if an assistant has already landed on a site, an
llms.txt
file might help the agent find specific pages or complete a task, per TechJuice and SEJ.
What the data shows
Ahrefs analysed server logs from
domains and reported that
of those domains published an
llms.txt
file and
of the files received zero requests in May 2026, with most fetches com
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