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AI Tools Are Scraping Your Website. Is That a Good Thing?

10May

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AI Tools Are Scraping Your Website. Is That a Good Thing?

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been disruptive. Things are changing rapidly. And it seems like this technology is posing new moral, ethical, and existential questions each day. There are plenty of stories and opinions to choose from. But one recent incident caught my eye. A website owner claimed that their site was being “hammered” by a content scraping bot. The tool img2dataset, catalogs large volumes of images for use in AI tools like Stable Diffusion. The site’s owner opened an issue on the tool’s GitHub repository. He was advised to opt out of scraping. To do so, he’d have to add specific headers to his website. This is our new reality. These tools are grabbing all manner of content – copyrighted images included. They’re regurgitating it to their users. Indeed, it’s the w...

Optimize Your Marketing with Deep Web Scraping | by Saltlux | Feb, 2022

Have you ever wondered how companies like Apple always stay ahead of the curve? They seem to have a crystal ball because they are always ready with a new product as soon as a trend hits! Well, they use a technique called Deep Web Scraping. Keep reading, and we’ll explain what Deep Web Scraping is and how to use it in your business.If you know the basics of SEO, then you know that search engines use AI to crawl the web and collect data on public internet pages. This is called Web Scraping, and it’s been around since the ’90s when search engines first existed. Deep Web Scraping crawls public web pages plus pages on the Deep Web to collect data. The Deep Web is simply pages that need a login to access. Search engines cannot access them because they are behind a paywall or exist in a private d...

Deep Web Scraping – Why It Matters to You | by Saltlux | Dec, 2021

As much as search engines like Google have made our lives easier, they come with obvious constraints. For example, Google can certainly give you thousands of results on a single search stroke, but the majority part of it will be fetched from the surface web.As a result, while you are getting a lot of information, you aren’t always getting what exactly you are looking for.So, what exactly is the surface web, and how can we get the better of it? To understand that, let’s have a detailed look at the surface web and the phenomenon of deep web scraping.Understanding The Differences Between Surface Web and Deep WebThe surface web is the portion of the World Wide Web freely accessible by the general public and only makes up 4% of the World Wide Web. The remaining 96% is behind paywalls and login ...