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Publishers unveiled a proposal today to establish more flexible rules governing how search engines index their content. Currently, the AP notes, publishers can use a “robots.txt” file to tell a search engine not to index a given page. The plan, announced at an NYC gathering of a publishers’ consortium today and known as Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP), would give publishers more say in what search engines could do. Rather than a simple do/do not index request, publishers could come…