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A guide to web crawlers: What you need to know

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 ...
Analytics Insight

What’s the Real Difference Between Web Scraping and Web Crawling?

Overview: Web crawling focuses on discovering and listing pages across the internet at scaleWeb scraping pulls specific data like prices or headlines from known ...
The Verge

Anthropic’s crawler is ignoring websites’ anti-AI scraping policies

iFixit’s CEO says ClaudeBot hit the website’s servers ‘a million times in 24 hours.’ iFixit’s CEO says ClaudeBot hit the website’s servers ‘a million times in 24 hours.’ is a news writer focused on ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google’s Web Crawler Fakes Being “Idle” To Render JavaScript

Google's web crawler simulates "idle" states to better render JavaScript-heavy sites, improving indexing of deferred content on webpages. Google's web crawler simulates "idle" states to trigger ...