Site History

Track how smashwords.com's technology stack and AI policy have changed over time

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Feb 12, 2026, 10:06 PMPolicy SnapshotLatest

CLOSED

30 AI bots blocked (18 training)

robots.txt

Policy changes:

Started blocking:

BingbotMeta External AgentMeta External FetcherVelen Public Web CrawlerWebz.io ExtendedCohere AIimg2dataset (LAION)OmgiliOmgilibot

Stopped blocking:

bingbotmeta-externalagentMeta-ExternalFetcherVelenPublicWebCrawlerwebzio-extendedcohere-aiimg2datasetomgiliomgilibot

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Feb 12, 2026, 10:06 PMTech ScanLatest

10 technologies detected

Changes from previous scan:

+ Added:

core-jsGoogle WorkspaceAmazon Route 53Mailgun

- Removed:

jQueryjQuery MigratejQuery UILeafletSentry

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Feb 5, 2026, 11:00 AMTech Scan

11 technologies detected

First recorded analysis

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Jan 29, 2026, 12:56 PMPolicy Snapshot

CLOSED

30 AI bots blocked (18 training)

robots.txt

First recorded policy snapshot

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