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A lot of the internet is behind semi-walled gardens and GoogleBot and BingBot have preferential access. All the large social sites, Cloudflare, and other CDNs
by sct202 4y ago
A lot of the internet is behind semi-walled gardens and GoogleBot and BingBot have preferential access.
All the large social sites, Cloudflare, and other CDNs will just stop serving unknown bots after awhile, which is why there are spidering/scraping services that cycle thru IP addresses. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29417061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29417061
- bombcar 4y agoSounds like Cloudflare has enough information to become a search engine itself, if it ever wanted to ...