Google’s Updated Crawler Guidance Recommends ETags via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google recommends using ETag for efficient caching for reducing unnecessary crawling and server load The post Google’s Updated Crawler Guidance Recommends ETags appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Google’s Web Crawler Fakes Being “Idle” To Render JavaScript via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google’s web crawler simulates “idle” states to better render JavaScript-heavy sites, improving indexing of deferred content on webpages. The post Google’s Web Crawler Fakes Being “Idle” To Render JavaScript appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Google Adds New Documentation For Mystery Crawler via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google updated their documentation to add information about a mysterious crawler that was generally unknown The post Google Adds New Documentation For Mystery Crawler appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Toyota’s Space Mobility Prototype Looks Rock-Crawler Ready Toyota has been slow to the electric car uptake, but this new Space Mobility prototype—scheduled for unveiling at the Japan Mobility Show on October 27—is proving the company still knows how to engineer the best and coolest stuff out there. Read more…

Google Updates Crawler Documentation To Fix A Typo via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google updated official crawler documentation to fix a typo in a user agent string that could cause errors in crawler identification The post Google Updates Crawler Documentation To Fix A Typo appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

The New York Times blocks OpenAI’s web crawler Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeThe New York Times has blocked OpenAI’s web crawler, meaning that OpenAI can’t use content from the publication to train its AI models. If you check the NYT’s robots.txt page, you can see that the NYT disallows GPTBot, the crawler that OpenAI introduced earlier this month. Based on the Internet Archive’s Wa…

Now you can block OpenAI’s web crawler Image: OpenAIOpenAI now lets you block its web crawler from scraping your site to help train GPT models. In a blog post, OpenAI said website operators can specifically disallow its GPTBot crawler on their site’s Robots.txt file or block its IP address. “Web pages crawled with the GPTBot user agent may potentially be used to improve future model…