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Nov 16, 2019 · Fundamentals
From Early Crawlers to ByteDance: A History of Web Scraping
This article traces the evolution of web crawlers—from early Perl scripts to modern ByteDance agents—explaining their role in search engines, business models, anti‑crawling measures, and the impact on content creation and competition.
Web Crawlingcontent aggregationdata-scraping
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