alt Hacker NewsYandex is Russian Google.
Of course they have bots... That's how you index the web.
If we took Google offline I bet there would also be a reduction in bot traffic from them too!
Indexing is also probably a low priority task, so if half their datacenter capacity is taken offline, their bot traffic probably reduces by more than 50%.
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The other Yandex AS which is their hosting/hypervisor platform, broadly similar to AWS, Azure, whatever also shows a major drop in bot traffic:
"If we took Google offline I bet there would also be a reduction in bot traffic from them too!"
That would be awesome.
I wonder how bot traffic on propaganda platforms like Twitter changed, but they probably won't give out any information anyway.
Yandex has cloud offering, their servers are used for actual bot traffic, not just crawlers. Yandex hasn’t been only a search company for a very long time.
I wonder how this will affect the Yandex search engine. I think I've read they split the Russian one and .com, but I'm not sure.
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I don't think these are the boys they refer to?
EDIT: I was wrong, they're just generic bot vs human traffic numbers and you're right.