Multiple times each day, Google recomputes the relative ranking of the world's Web sites. And it must index several billion new Web pages added daily. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

As the quantity of information on the Internet continues to grow, so does the question of how to process it all and make it useful. A startup called 80legs, based in Houston, TX, is hoping that an ...

In tech, it’s trendy to offer something “as a service” — to deliver it online, usually for a subscription fee. We’ve seen software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, data-as-a-service, and more. Now ...

Web users make a billion visits every month to websites of dubious character, according to a survey enabled by “web crawling” software developed by a US company. The survey, carried out over the last ...

Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers exploding, publishers blocking bots, and many platforms sending little traffic back.