The more you use a Google feature as a crutch, the less the web is semantic.
Also, Google has increasingly made it difficult to automate searches, so the effort required to notify multiple websites increases quickly.
Also, Google has increasingly made it difficult to automate searches, so the effort required to notify multiple websites increases quickly.
That's an understatement. Doing something as simple as
inurl:"humans.txt"
Since then, it's been hard to justify using gmail for anything serious.
Yes, predating this and .well-known, the principle exists as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_URL
There was a website way back in the 90s which encouraged a standardisation of paths such as /about, /products, /services etc.