A web crawler (also known as a web spider or web robot) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. This process is called Web crawling or ...

Moreover, AI crawlers are much more aggressive than standard crawlers. As the InMotionhosting web hosting company notes, they also tend to disregard crawl delays or bandwidth-saving guidelines and ...

Anyone who runs a website can protect their content from being searched by search engine crawlers and included in their search engine index.

A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly reveals what it called “a striking shift in the nature of automated web ...

Cloudflare’s AI Audit gives organizations the visibility they need to make informed decisions on AI crawling, and the ...

Cloudflare has now exposed several secret details about Perplexity's crawling practices, alleging that the AI company uses 'stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives.' ...

The crawler would also need some way to enable user defined processing of downloaded files for example by using call backs to user scripts. The crawler should be multithreaded and ideally would allow ...

AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone There’s an accelerating cat-and-mouse game between web publishers and AI crawlers, and we all stand to lose.

Web crawlers are essential to website owners as it serves to increase the number of visitation on their site. Here's how you can entice crawlers into your own site.

In a recent blog post, Daniel Cid, CTO of Securi, a company that provides website security monitoring and related services, published details of a recent SQL Injection attempt. That in itself isn ...