#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
#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
#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
New Google help document on how Google's web crawlers work https://www.seroundtable.com/how-google-crawling-works-41022.html
#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
#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 …
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Google lists Googlebot file limits · Do Google’s crawling limits affect your website? https://ilo.im/16adna
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#Business #Google #SearchEngine #Crawlers #Googlebot #Files #HTML #PDF #WebDev #Frontend
#Development #Challenges
Webspace invaders · Let’s level up our anti-AI scraping game! https://ilo.im/16ahl8
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#AI #Crawlers #RobotsTxt #RateLimiting #WAFs #Cloudflare #IndieWeb #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

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.