Internet traffic is up 19% in 2025, according to Cloudflare Radar. Meanwhile, ChatGPT is the most-blocked service on the internet. But .Christmas is the most dangerous domain on the planet for spam ...

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Google GOOGL may be celebrating its 25 th anniversary today. But who remembers the pre-Google world of search? As in such once-prominent search engines as AltaVista, Excite, Lycos, WebCrawler and even ...

Myriam Jessier asked Google about what would be good attributes of a web crawler. In which both Martin Splitt and Gary Illyes gave some responses to. Myriam Jessier asked on Bluesky, "what are the ...

Firecrawl’s co-founder and CEO Caleb Peffer knew the exact moment he found the investor to lead his Series A. He was in a coffee meeting with Nexus Venture Partner’s Abhishek Sharma at the Blue Bottle ...

Global mining and construction equipment giant Liebherr recently rolled out its first-ever battery electric crawler excavator, setting a new standard in heavy earth-moving equipment capabilities with ...

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler ...

The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can access their sites. The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced ...

A nightcrawler harness is a time-tested, proven, multi-hook rig used to present live nightcrawlers in a slow but efficient and enticing way. They are especially effective for targeting walleye. The ...

NLWeb is an open project developed by Microsoft that aims to make it simple to create a rich, natural language interface for websites using the model of their choice and their own data. Our goal is ...

Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed their Git repository service, repeatedly causing instability and ...