Glossary · Answer engines and retrieval
training data
Text absorbed during model training. Content in training data may influence answers without ever being cited, and cannot be updated or withdrawn once a model is trained. This is why blocking training crawlers and allowing retrieval crawlers is a coherent policy rather than a contradiction.
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Answer engines and retrieval
How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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