#web-crawling tag

OpenAI Scaling Up Crawling & Bots

OpenAI is reportedly scaling up its crawling infrastructure for the holiday shopping season. The folks at Vercel noticed OpenAI adding a lot of new IP ranges for its bots and crawlers. Ryan Siddle from Merj wrote on LinkedIn, "OpenAI scaling up their infrastructure ahead of Thanksgiving & Black Friday with a lot of /28 blocks." He added later in the comments, "That's just across OpenAI User for new IPs. It doesn't include what they already had. We've seen quite a significant ramp up over the past 1-2 months."

Information security

Marketing tech

fromAdExchanger

1 week ago

From Creators To Haters; BidSwitch Says 'No More Free Scrapes' | AdExchanger

AI-driven content platforms enable monetization of hateful and low-quality material while emerging crawl-pricing systems aim to make crawlers pay and publishers earn revenue.

Artificial intelligence

fromFast Company

1 week ago

Misinformation sites have an open-door policy for AI scrapers

Reputable news websites increasingly use robots.txt to block AI crawlers, while misinformation sites rarely restrict such crawling.

Artificial intelligence

fromComputerworld

3 months ago

Rise of AI crawlers and bots causing web traffic havoc

AI-driven crawlers generate roughly 80% of AI bot requests, Meta produces over half of AI bot traffic, and fetcher bots can spike to 39,000 requests per minute.

Privacy technologies

fromTechzine Global

3 months ago

Cloudflare accuses Perplexity of ignoring crawl limits

Perplexity may be stealthily crawling websites while circumventing detection and not respecting guidelines for bots.

Information security

fromTheregister

3 months ago

Perplexity AI crawlers accused of stealth data scraping

Perplexity AI search startup is allegedly disguising its content-scraping bots to ignore website restrictions.

fromThe Verge

3 months ago

Cloudflare says Perplexity's AI bots are 'stealth crawling' blocked sites

Cloudflare claims that Perplexity conceals its crawling identity to circumvent website restrictions, resulting in concerns over unauthorized content scraping from various sites.

Privacy professionals

Privacy technologies

fromSearch Engine Roundtable

4 months ago

OpenAI Crawling LLMs.txt Files? Google Says It Won't.

OpenAI is actively crawling LLMS.txt files on various websites, despite Google's claims of non-support.

Artificial intelligence

fromArs Technica

4 months ago

Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won't.

Challenges in passing tech legislation continue as technology advances rapidly, complicating the regulation of artificial intelligence.

fromMedium

5 months ago

DOM-Aware Web Crawling with Apache Pekko and Playwright

The result is a web crawler that can open headless browsers, click to expand content, traverse and extract text from a target DOM element, retry failed requests, and extract internal links for recursive crawling.

Web development

#seo

fromSearch Engine Roundtable

4 months ago