Topic: crawler documentation
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Google Updates Mediapartners-Google Crawler Guidance
Google has updated its documentation to clarify that the Mediapartners-Google crawler serves a broader range of advertising products beyond just AdSense, including tools like Google Ad Manager. This strategic shift acknowledges the bot's wider role in Google’s ad ecosystem but introduces ambiguit...
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How to Block Claude AI From Crawling Your Website
Anthropic has clarified its web crawlers, providing website owners with straightforward methods to block them via `robots.txt` for greater control over AI training and content visibility. The company operates three distinct crawlers: ClaudeBot for AI training data, Claude-User for live user queri...
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Googlebot File Size Limits: Official Docs Updated
Google has reorganized its crawler documentation, moving general file size limits to a centralized crawler overview and detailing specific limits for Googlebot on its own page. The universal default file size limit for Google's crawlers is 15 MB, while Googlebot for Search has specific limits of ...
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Google's Secret Crawler Army: Hundreds Undocumented
Google operates hundreds of distinct, mostly undocumented crawlers across its services, with "Googlebot" being a broad historical term for this complex infrastructure rather than a single entity. The core crawling system functions like an internal SaaS platform, where various clients request web ...
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