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There is a very large scale crawler that uses random valid user agents and a staggeringly large pool of ips. I first noticed it because a lot of traffic was coming from Brazil and …

ClaudeBot (second worst crawler) and GPTBot are the only ones that identify themselves in an obvious way. The rest I am blocking by network. I assume AI when the crawler is very ag…

This is the worst behaved bot I have ever seen, I suspect it is AI related. I recently decided to block all the AI crawlers - unlike search engines I get nothing from them.

Other than microsoft themselves: myspace is still fairly huge but probably a mixed stack. Plentyoffish is up there too - http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture