Google announced that it is sunsetting the search console crawl rate limiter tool, scheduled to be removed on January 8, 2024, citing improvements to crawling that has essentially made it unnecessary.

As expected, Google removed the crawl rate setting tool within Google Search Console. Last November, Google told us they would deprecate the crawl rate limiter legacy tool within Google Search Console ...

If your crawl budget is too low to allow the search bots to discover all the new URLs you’ve added to your site or to revisit URLs that have changed, then they won’t know about the content on them.

OpenAI crawl activity roughly tripled after GPT-5, with OAI-SearchBot now generating more log events than GPTBot.

If Microsoft wants to crawl Reddit for its search engines, it has to pay up for its AI training too. Credit: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images If Microsoft wants to include Reddit posts in Bing ...