#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
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
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
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

#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.

#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

#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/

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

Nieman Lab

#Development #Reports
Google lists Googlebot file limits · Do Google’s crawling limits affect your website? https://ilo.im/16adna

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Google lists Googlebot file limits for crawling

Google updated two of its help documents to clarify how much Googlebot can crawl.

Search Engine Land
Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott

There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking our servers wave after wave, systematically requesting page after page, relentlessly filling their data stores while we watch our access logs fill up.

Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer