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2. Googlebot - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebot

   Googlebot is the web crawler software used by Google that collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine. This name is actually used to refer to two different types of web crawlers: a desktop crawler (to simulate desktop users) and a mobile crawler (to simulate a mobile user).

3. Web crawler - Wikipedia

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   A Web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web and that is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing (web spidering).

4. Spider trap - Wikipedia

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   A spider trap (or crawler trap) is a set of web pages that may intentionally or unintentionally be used to cause a web crawler or search bot to make an infinite number of requests or cause a poorly constructed crawler to crash.

5. Web Bot - Wikipedia

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   Web Bot is an internet bot computer program whose developers claim is able to predict future events by tracking keywords entered on the internet. It was developed in 1997, originally to predict stock market trends. [ 1 ]

6. robots.txt - Wikipedia

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   In 2023, Originality.AI found that 306 of the thousand most-visited websites blocked OpenAI's GPTBot in their robots.txt file and 85 blocked Google's Google-Extended. Many robots.txt files named GPTBot as the only bot explicitly disallowed on all pages. Denying access to GPTBot was common among news websites such as the BBC and The New York Times.

7. Email-address harvesting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email-address_harvesting

   The simplest method involves spammers purchasing or trading lists of email addresses from other spammers.. Another common method is the use of special software known as "harvesting bots" or "harvesters", which uses spider Web pages, postings on Usenet, mailing list archives, internet forums and other online sources to obtain email addresses from public data.

8. WebCrawler - Wikipedia

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   WebCrawler was highly successful early on. [15] At one point, it was unusable during peak times due to server overload. [16] It was the second most visited website on the internet in February 1996, but it quickly dropped below rival search engines and directories such as Yahoo!, Infoseek, Lycos, and Excite in 1997.

9. Bingbot - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingbot

   Bingbot is a web-crawling robot (type of internet bot), deployed by Microsoft October 2010 to supply Bing. [1] It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Bing (search engine). It performs the same as Google's Googlebot. [2]