Understanding the difference between search bots and scrapers is crucial for SEO. Website crawlers fall into two categories: This guide breaks down first-party crawlers that can improve your site’s ...

The boom of generative AI products over the past few months has prompted many websites to take countermeasures. The basic concern goes like this: AI products depend on consuming large volumes of ...

Entrepreneurs behind popular websites including iFixit, Read the Docs, and Freelancer.com claim to have experienced disruptive traffic booms from bots designed by AI startup Anthropic to scour the web ...

Google has updated its Verifying Googlebot and other Google crawlers help document to add a new section describing the three categories or types of crawlers they have. They have their Googlebot ...

When you look for something online using a keyword, the search engine goes through trillions of pages to create a list of results that are related to your keyword, according to CloudFlare. So how do ...

SEO is a many-headed beast. From off-page elements to on-page elements, covering all aspects of SEO can easily become a Herculean task, especially when dealing with large websites. That is why a tool ...

Google introduces GoogleOther, a new web crawler, to optimize operations, streamline R&D tasks, and reduce strain on Googlebot. Google introduces GoogleOther, a new web crawler, to alleviate strain on ...

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to ...

The mini-Demo conference at the Web 2.0 Expo is the Launch Pad, where five start-up companies pitched to a small panel of experts (Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb, Matt Marshall of VentureBeat, ...

The Web serves as a vast, renewable resource for the most valuable thing in existence: data. However, getting useful data from the Web isn’t always an easy task. Luckily, there are a handful of open ...