The issue began on August 8, 2025 and is now being resolved. It is unclear what percentage of sites were impacted. Google has confirmed it fixed an issue with its crawlers impacting “some sites.” The ...

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 ...

If any AI company were to face allegations of using deceptive web crawling tactics to access website content, few would have expected Perplexity. With its $150 million annual recurring revenue, one ...

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to ...

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Abstract: This paper demonstrates the implementation of Distributed Web Crawling using the Hadoop MapReduce framework on a distributed system where multiple Virtual Machines are connected through a ...

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In the age of data-driven artificial intelligence, LLMs like GPT-3 and BERT require vast amounts of well-structured data from diverse sources to improve performance across various applications.