Google's anti-scraping defense backfires: SEO tools now scrape nearly 3x more
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-10-28
To counter Google's 'poisoned' SERP results, SEO tools keep scraping until they get two results over 90% similar — meaning Google's anti-scraping defense is causing almost 3x more scraping. gaganghotra adds this may also be poisoning Search Console data.
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