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by korkybuchek 297 days ago
> Google's bot was one of the few well behaved ones and would even slow scraping if it saw a spike in the response times.

Google has invested decades of core research with an army of PhDs into its crawler, particularly around figuring out when to recrawl a page. For example (a bit dated, but you can follow the refs if you're interested):

https://www.niss.org/sites/default/files/Tassone_interface6....