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 ...

When you go to a search engine and perform a search many people don’t understand how those results end up there. Some people may think that sites are submitted while others know that a piece of ...

Meta has quietly unleashed a new web crawler to scour the Internet and collect data en masse to feed its AI model. The crawler, named the Meta External Agent, was launched last month according to ...

An open licensing standard that aims to make AI companies pay for the content they vacuum up across the web is now an ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and ...

There is no doubt that you can learn a tremendous amount of information on search engine optimization (SEO) by reading sites like this or ones in our blogroll, but there is always a lot to be learned ...

Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now ...

Tollbit, a biz that aims to help publishers monetize AI traffic through access fees for crawlers, said in its Q2 2025 report ...

Forgot one setting, for one subdomain, and caused an hour of severe errors Who, Me? Thank you, dear reader, for tearing ...

Kyle Wiens recognized something was wrong in July when his staff at iFixit, a website outlining how to fix common household items, began receiving alerts about high traffic on their cellphones. The ...