PPC LandFeb 6
Google slashes web crawl limit by 86.7% as cost pressures mount: Google this year reduced Googlebot's file size limit from 15MB to just 2MB per resource, marking an 86.7% decrease that could reshape technical SEO practices across the web. https://ppc.land/google-slashes-web-crawl-limit-by-86-7-as-cost-pressures-mount/ #Google #SEO #WebCrawl #TechnicalSEO #DigitalMarketing
Google slashes web crawl limit by 86.7% as cost pressures mount

Google this year reduced Googlebot's file size limit from 15MB to just 2MB per resource, marking an 86.7% decrease that could reshape technical SEO practices across the web.

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Brian SlettenJan 29, 2025

Be ungovernable.

New tarpitting open source software to “capture” AI bots that don’t respect robots.txt restrictions:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/

#technology #ai #bots #webcrawl #tarpits

DigitalPebble LtdNov 28, 2022

#StormCrawler 2.6 released

https://github.com/DigitalPebble/storm-crawler/releases/tag/2.6

Thanks to our contributors and users

#opensource #webcrawl

Release What's new in StormCrawler 2.6 · DigitalPebble/storm-crawler

Highlights Using URLFrontier in archetype URLFilter becomes an abstract class Fixed deactivation of maxDepthFilter JSoupParserBolt improve performance of link extraction Multiple dependency upgrad...

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