Breaking into 4 independent services means: Scale each based on actual need (crawler needs 10 instances, matcher needs 2) Test one piece at a time (ship faster, iterate publicly) Different tech ...

Googlebot once again generated more traffic than any other crawler in 2025, according to a new Cloudflare report. It outpaced every search and AI bot as Google continued crawling the web for search ...

Dark web basics: Learn how the dark web really works, from Tor anonymity to cyber threats. Essential cybersecurity learning for staying safe online. Pixabay, Boskampi The dark web has shifted from a ...

2025 saw a huge amount of attacker innovation when it comes to phishing attacks, as attackers continue to double down on identity-based techniques. The continual evolution of phishing means it remains ...

Cloudflare's Year in Review shows Googlebot crawled 200 times more pages than PerplexityBot. Global Internet traffic grew 19%. Googlebot crawled more than 200 times the share reached by PerplexityBot.

Google announces delays in Search Console's Page indexing report. The company confirms crawling, indexing, and ranking remain unaffected by the reporting issue. Google is experiencing longer than ...

Why Is the Trump Administration Keeping Joe Biden’s Student Loan Deferments? China’s Population Is on the Way Down Life is full of weird auguries. The swallows’ return to Capistrano signals the onset ...

TOPSHOT - A robot using artificial intelligence is displayed at a stand during the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, on May 30, 2024. Humanity is in a ...

When you’re getting into web development, you’ll hear a lot about Python and JavaScript. They’re both super popular, but they do different things and have their own quirks. It’s not really about which ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. The Common Crawl Foundation is little known outside of Silicon Valley. For more ...

AI-powered browsers like ChatGPT Atlas aren’t just browsers with little ChatGPT picture-in-picture boxes off to the side answering questions. They also have “agentic capabilities,” meaning they can ...

Reddit has accused Perplexity and other data scrapers of stealing valuable data. A new lawsuit claims the firms bypassed Reddit's digital guardrails using Google. Reddit said the companies have been ...