• lud@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Indexing is what “scrapers” mostly do.

    That’s how search engines work. If you don’t allow any scraping don’t be surprised if you get no visitors.

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      4 months ago

      Search engine scrapers index. But that’s a subset of scrapers.

      There are data scrapers and content scrapers, and these are becoming more prolific as AI takes off and ppl need to feed it data.

      This post is specifically about AI scrapers.