The web is moving from one question — may you index me? — to four: may this content be indexed, shown as a snippet, summarised, or used for AI retrieval and training? Most tools bundle these together. WeSearch keeps them separate, states its answer for every source, and shows how each answer was reached.
Every source is a feed its publisher chose to make machine-readable. From that one fact we derive a conservative default. We never claim a permission a publisher has not granted — anything beyond what an RSS feed inherently allows is marked Not asserted until the publisher confirms it.
| Dimension | Question | WeSearch default |
|---|---|---|
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis for the default: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Attribution always applied: Headline + short excerpt shown with the publisher's name and a canonical link back to the original article.
The effective rights for any source are public and machine-readable:
- Human-readable, on each source hub — e.g. /source/tc
- Machine-readable, per source —
/rights/source/<feedId> - The whole policy as JSON —
/rights.json
If you publish one of these sources and want to restrict summaries, assert or deny retrieval and training, add licensing terms, or be removed entirely, write to [email protected]. Verified changes are reflected here and in the machine-readable feeds, and marked as publisher-confirmed so the change is itself inspectable.
This registry is WeSearch's declared handling policy. It is not legal advice and not a representation of any publisher's own position except where explicitly marked publisher-confirmed. Last reviewed 2026-07-24.