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Re:Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings ... by Nextgrid on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:22PM (#46713600)
Running the bot nowadays is hard, because a lot of sites will now block you - not just by asking nicely via robots.txt, but by checking your actual source IP. Once they see it's not Google, they send you a 403.
Re:Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings ... by eloisius on Thursday January 22, 2026 @07:01AM (#46718142)
Cloudflare’s ubiquity makes bootstrapping a search index via crawler virtually impossible, but what about data sources like Common Crawl?