The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo
If you have billions of targets to scan, there’s generally no need to handle each and every edge case. Just ignoring what you can’t understand easily and jumping on to the next target is an absolutely viable strategy. You will never be able to process everything anyway.
Of course, it changes a bit if some of these targets actually make your bot crash. If it happens to often, you will want to harden your bot against it. Then again, if it just happens every now and then, it’s still much easier to just restart and continue with the next target.
If you have billions of targets to scan, there’s generally no need to handle each and every edge case. Just ignoring what you can’t understand easily and jumping on to the next target is an absolutely viable strategy. You will never be able to process everything anyway.
Of course, it changes a bit if some of these targets actually make your bot crash. If it happens to often, you will want to harden your bot against it. Then again, if it just happens every now and then, it’s still much easier to just restart and continue with the next target.