Mastodawn

ICYMI: Google rewrites Googlebot's rulebook: 2MB limits, IP moves, and what crawlers really are: Google today published two blog posts revealing Googlebot's true architecture as a shared SaaS platform, a 2MB fetch limit, and a new IP ranges directory path. https://ppc.land/google-rewrites-googlebots-rulebook-2mb-limits-ip-moves-and-what-crawlers-really-are/ #Google #Googlebot #SEO #Crawlers #WebMaster

Google rewrites Googlebot's rulebook: 2MB limits, IP moves, and what crawlers really are

Google today published two blog posts revealing Googlebot's true architecture as a shared SaaS platform, a 2MB fetch limit, and a new IP ranges directory path.

PPC Land

Inautilo 2d ago

#Development #Explainers
Inside Googlebot · How Google’s crawl system decides which content gets indexed https://ilo.im/16btho

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#Business #Google #SearchEngine #SEO #Crawlers #Content #RobotsTxt #Development #WebDev #Frontend

Inside Googlebot: demystifying crawling, fetching, and the bytes we process | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers

Google for Developers

mvc1095 (they)Mar 27

Quo Vadis, Crawlers? Progress and what’s next on safeguarding our infrastructure https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/26/quo-vadis-crawlers-progress-and-whats-next-on-safeguarding-our-infrastructure/ #AI, #AIDataCrawlers, #Crawlers, #Infrastructure, #Knowledge, #KnowledgeAsAService, #Scraping, #ScrapingBots, #WebScraping, #WikimediaFoundation, #WikimediaProjects

Quo Vadis, Crawlers? Progress and what’s next on safeguarding our infrastructure

One year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation reported a significant increase in bot traffic to the Wikimedia projects, largely coming from crawlers who extract content to train generative AI systems. We …

Diff

Thomas Rigby Mar 23

Fresh on my #blog: "There's a difference between 'scraping' and 'retrieving'". I have a dilemma; one is extractive, the other accessibility. What do I do?
#ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #crawlers #ethics #AIethics
thomasrigby.com/posts/theres-a-difference-between-scraping-and-retrieving/

There's a difference between “scraping” and “retrieving”

Not all crawling of my site by LLMs is negative

thomasrigby.com

サムエルはツナマヨおにぎりをたべます。Mar 20

https://roundproxies.com/blog/how-to-bypass-anti-bots/

They talk about #iocaine in their standups

#ai #crawlers #NotEvenHidingIt

How to bypass Anti-Bots in 2026: 7-step guide

Learn how to bypass anti-bots in 2026 with Camoufox, curl_cffi, and SeleniumBase UC Mode. Step-by-step code examples included.

Roundproxies Blog

Inautilo Mar 10

#Development #Findings
Markdown, llms.txt, and AI crawlers · Do Markdown and llms.txt matter for your website? https://ilo.im/16b5qb

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#Business #SEO #SearchEngines #AI #Crawlers #Content #Website #Markdown #LlmsTxt #RobotsTxt

Markdown, llms.txt and AI crawlers

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Barry Schwartz Mar 4

New Google help document on how Google's web crawlers work https://www.seroundtable.com/how-google-crawling-works-41022.html

#google #seo #googlebot #crawlers

Inautilo Mar 2

#Business #Reports
Anthropic details how Claude crawls sites · How to block the three separate user agents https://ilo.im/16ax7y

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#AI #Claude #Crawlers #UserAgents #RobotsTxt #Content #Website #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

Anthropic clarifies how Claude bots crawl sites and how to block them

Anthropic explains how its bots handle AI training, live queries, and search results, and what opting out means for visibility.

Search Engine Land

PrivacyDigest Feb 15

#News publishers limit #InternetArchive access due to #AI scraping concerns | #NiemanJournalismLab

As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet #Archive operates #crawlers that capture webpage #snapshots. Many of these are accessible through its public-facing tool, the #WaybackMachine. But as AI #bots scavenge the web for training data to feed their models, the Internet Archive’s commitment to free information access has turned its digital library into a …

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/