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Multiple times each day, Google recomputes the relative ranking of the world's Web sites. And it must index several billion new Web pages added daily. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Before Google, there was Ask Jeeves – the well-dressed, always smiling gentleman who was always ready to answer your most pressing questions. Back then, the knowledge about search engines was still in ...

A Web crawler is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing. A Web crawler may also be called a Web spider, an ant, an automatic indexer, ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about declining crawl rates after making large changes to the websites infrastructure, in this case, moving to a new content delivery network (CDN). Mueller ...

Google announced new support for their crawlers with locale-adaptive web pages, web pages that change the content based on the user’s country origin and/or language settings. For example, web ...

Crawling enterprise sites has all the complexities of any normal crawl plus several additional factors that need to be considered before beginning the crawl. The following approaches show how to ...