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Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers

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646 points blendergeek | 3 comments | 16 Jan 25 13:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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hartator ◴[16 Jan 25 14:52 UTC] No.42725964[source]▶
There are already “infinite” websites like these on the Internet.

Crawlers (both AI and regular search) have a set number of pages they want to crawl per domain. This number is usually determined by the popularity of the domain.

Unknown websites will get very few crawls per day whereas popular sites millions.

Source: I am the CEO of SerpApi.

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1. qwe----3 ◴[16 Jan 25 16:55 UTC] No.42727760[source]▶
This certainly violates the TOS for using Google.
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2. swyx ◴[16 Jan 25 18:08 UTC] No.42728696[source]▶
what does this have to do with google?
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3. Mr_Bees69 ◴[17 Jan 25 15:02 UTC] No.42738207[source]▶
hes the ceo of a company that provides an api for google