Google announced new support for their crawlers with locale-adaptive web pages, web pages that change the content based on the user’s country origin and/or language settings. For example, web ...

A Web crawler is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing. A Web crawler may also be called a Web spider, an ant, an automatic indexer, ...

Multiple times each day, Google recomputes the relative ranking of the world's Web sites. And it must index several billion new Web pages added daily. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about declining crawl rates after making large changes to the websites infrastructure, in this case, moving to a new content delivery network (CDN). Mueller ...

The rise of generative AI tools may have leveled the on-page SEO playing field. But search engines are smart. Recent updates in their algorithms and ranking systems now mean that user experience (UX) ...

There have been an ongoing discussions over the past few weeks across social media that Googlebot has dramatically reduced its crawling. For example, the founder of a web crawl analysis service ...

Focused web crawling is an advanced field within information retrieval that selectively targets web pages relevant to specific topics. Unlike general-purpose search engines, these crawlers employ ...

For 20 years, most SEO professionals only cared about Googlebot. However, in the last few years, a host of new crawlers have emerged from different indexing platforms, such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and ...