Crawlers are endemic. Now representing half of all internet traffic, they will soon outpace human traffic. This unseen subway ...
These web crawlers, created by the San Francisco-based company, are said to have stretched some businesses' online bandwidth to the limit, even disregarding instructions to ignore specific websites.
Tarpits were originally designed to waste spammers' time and resources, but creators like Aaron have now evolved the tactic ...
Google has added a new section to its crawler and fetcher documentation for HTTP caching, which clarifies how Google’s crawlers handle cache control headers. With that, Gary Illyes from Google ...
Web crawlers for AI models often do not stop at ... The endless labyrinth that Nepenthes actually wants to be would then no longer work, but the tool could still contribute to the goal of ...
Over the past several days, we’ve made some changes at MacStories to address the ingestion of our work by web crawlers operated by artificial intelligence companies. We’ve learned a lot, so we thought ...