Search engine scraping: Difference between revisions

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* [[HTML]] markup changes, depending on the methods used to harvest the content of a website, even a small change in HTML data can render a scraping tool broken until it is updated.

* General changes in detection systems. In the past years search engines have tightened their detection systems nearly month by month making it more and more difficult to reliable scrape as the developers need to experiment and adapt their code regularly.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/MAju1QDF6_8|title=Google Groups|website=google.com}}</ref>

* [[Web scraping|Scrapers]] now need [[Headless browser|JavaScript rendering]] capabilities to fully load and extract results from Google Search. The reason for this change is to enhance Google’s ability to protect its search results from [[Internet bot|bots]] and [[Spamdexing|spam]]. [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] tools rely on scraped data from Google to provide accurate answers and insights. This leads to increased scraping attempts that can overload systems, misrepresent data, or steal [[intellectual property]]. By requiring [[JavaScript]] to be enabled in [[browser]], Google seeks to ensure that only legitimate users, rather than bots, can interact with and access its search results.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://smartproxy.com/blog/javascript-is-now-a-must-for-google-search|title=JavaScript Is Now a Must for Google Search Results: Here’s What You Need to Know|website=smartproxy.com}}</ref>

== Detection ==