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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).
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).
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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.
reCAPTCHA Inc. [1] is a CAPTCHA system owned by Google.It enables web hosts to distinguish between human and automated access to websites. The original version asked users to decipher hard-to-read text or match images.
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.
Google introduced download scanning protection in Chrome 17. [155] In February 2018, Google introduced an ad blocking feature based on recommendations from the Interactive Advertising Bureau . Sites that employ invasive ads are given a 30-day warning, after which their ads will be blocked. [ 156 ]
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]