Internet giants like Facebook and Google have long aided in the fight against child pornography, and now, another technological weapon is being added to the government’s arsenal. Google has created a ...

An organization that works with police worldwide to remove images of child sexual abuse from the Internet has credited Google with helping it develop a web crawler that finds child pornography. This ...

Google's web crawler simulates "idle" states to better render JavaScript-heavy sites, improving indexing of deferred content on webpages. Google's web crawler simulates "idle" states to trigger ...

Google has shut down Duplex on the Web and has retired its web crawler, DuplexWeb-Google. Google posted a notice of this in this help document saying “Duplex on the Web is deprecated, and will no ...

People CEO Neil Vogel says Google's AI crawler can't be blocked because it would block the web crawler too. This lets the ...

Google has updated the user agent string for the AdsBot Mobile Web crawler. Google said if you hard-coded the old user agent string, you will want to make sure to update that in your code. This was ...

Google has launched GoogleOther, a new web crawler that various internal teams within the company will use to crawl the public web. It is unclear whether Google plans to use GoogleOther for Bard, its ...

Google announced the launch of a new version of its web crawler Googlebot on Tuesday at the Google I/O developer conference. Googlebot will now be “evergreen,” which means the crawler will always be ...

OpenAI has launched web crawler GPTBot to improve artificial intelligence models. "Web pages crawled with the GPTBot user agent may potentially be used to improve future models and are filtered to ...

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