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Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers

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714 points blendergeek | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 13:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | 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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p0nce ◴[16 Jan 25 17:27 UTC] No.42728210[source]▶
Brand new site with no user gets 1k request a month by bots, the CO2 cost must be atrocious.
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1. p0nce ◴[19 Jan 25 10:35 UTC] No.42755815[source]▶
s/a month/a day