A report released by Vercel highlights the growing impact of AI bots in web crawling. OpenAI’s GPTBot and Anthropic’s Claude generate nearly 1 billion requests monthly across Vercel’s network. The data indicates that GPTBot made 569 million requests in the past month, while Claude accounted for 370 million. Additionally, PerplexityBot contributed 24.4 million fetches, and … Read more
Google’s Search Relations answered several questions regarding webpage indexing on the latest episode of the ‘Search Off The Record’ podcast. The topics discussed were how to block Googlebot from crawling specific sections of a page and how to prevent Googlebot from accessing a site altogether. Google’s John Mueller and Gary Illyes answered the questions examined … Read more
Google has recently introduced a new web crawler called “GoogleOther,” designed to alleviate strain on Googlebot, its primary search index crawler. The addition of this new crawler will ultimately help Google optimize and streamline its crawling operations. Web crawlers, also known as robots or spiders, automatically discover and scan websites. Googlebot is responsible for building … Read more
