By “Yandex bot” and “Russian bot” what do they mean?
Do we mean “bot”, like a social media account that pretends to be an authentic human user, but is actually a “bot”, or some other version of something inauthentic? Or do we mean the crawlers that Yandex sends out to crawl websites to refresh its search index?
Ok, so that’s a pretty inoffensive form of bot. It’s not the bots pretending to be real people, which is what I think of when I hear “Russian Bot”.
It’s presumably also better behaved than the crawlers used by the AI companies. Those just refresh indices, but they’re way more aggressive than the ones typically used by search companies, and often don’t respect the robots.txt file.
By “Yandex bot” and “Russian bot” what do they mean?
Do we mean “bot”, like a social media account that pretends to be an authentic human user, but is actually a “bot”, or some other version of something inauthentic? Or do we mean the crawlers that Yandex sends out to crawl websites to refresh its search index?
Search engine crawlers.
https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
Ok, so that’s a pretty inoffensive form of bot. It’s not the bots pretending to be real people, which is what I think of when I hear “Russian Bot”.
It’s presumably also better behaved than the crawlers used by the AI companies. Those just refresh indices, but they’re way more aggressive than the ones typically used by search companies, and often don’t respect the robots.txt file.
Of course the reason of using the term ‘bot’ rather than crawler or just automated traffic is a specific framing.