Crawlers are endemic. Now representing half of all internet traffic, they will soon outpace human traffic. This unseen subway ...

A Web crawler is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing. A Web crawler may also be called a Web spider, an ant, an automatic ...

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.

Meta has quietly unleashed a new web crawler to scour the Internet and collect data en masse to feed its AI model. The crawler, named the Meta External Agent, was launched last month according to ...