Google’s search engine results pages now require JavaScript, effectively “hiding” the listings from organic rank trackers, ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...

Data has become the cornerstone of modern business strategy, helping companies stay ahead in competitive industries. Among the many ways to gather data, web scraping has emerged as an indispensable ...

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The ...

In a nutshell: A recent report by Akamai estimates that 42 percent of overall web traffic is generated by bots, with 65 percent of these bots having clearly malicious intent. Akamai's study primarily ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

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