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Google clarifies how Google’s crawlers handle cache control headers
Google has added a new section to its crawler and fetcher documentation for HTTP caching, which clarifies how Google’s crawlers handle cache control headers. With that, Gary Illyes from Google ...
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Tarpits were originally designed to waste spammers' time and resources, but creators like Aaron have now evolved the tactic ...
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Google: Don't Dynamically Update Robots.txt File Multiple Times Per Day
Google won't necessarily see that you don't want Google to crawl a page at 7am and then at 9am you do want Google to crawl that page. One of our technicians asked if they could upload a robots.txt ...
Can this tech billionaire save the media from an AI apocalypse?
The advent of AI has added to the media industry’s long list of business model woes in the internet age. Could salvation come from the bots?
Nepenthes: a tarpit for AI web crawlers
Web crawlers for AI models often do not stop at copyright protection either – The Nepenthes tool sets a trap for them.
Reddit is now blocking big search engines and their AI web crawlers from bringing up relevant posts – unless they pay up, and Google already has
So, only Google will be able to surface recent Reddit ... Reddit updated its robots.txt file to stop web crawlers from doing ...