Joining several others recently, I’ve decided that I don’t really want Google around anymore.

I’ve been avoiding their products as much as possible for a long while, but that’s not really enough. So I’m also updating the robots.txt for all domains I control to exclude Googlebot.

User-agent: Googlebot 
Disallow: /

Those sites are very small, with close to no traffic, so it doesn’t really matter, nor will they notice in any way. But change is possible, even if it starts small.

Had to log in to my registrar and check which domains I actually own, which made me chuckle a bit. I have a tendency to buy a domain for some kind of side-project that ends up going nowhere and leaving a placeholder-site around.

Would be nice if they came to their senses and stopped being evil, but not holding my breath for that one.