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on Jan 28, 2011
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Quora Blocks Startup Search Engines
Just about everybody effective blocks (or throttles to near zero) all but the top 3 or so crawlers. For a popular commerce site a significant fraction (like 1/3rd) of the infrastructure capacity is just responding to crawler traffic.
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