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NonWiki: The Negative of the Negative (EA-NEGONT-02), Crimson Hexagonal Archive, Alexanarch. https://www.alexanarch.org/non/common-crawl/", "research": { "google": "https://www.google.com/search?q=Common+Crawl", "google_non": "https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Common+Crawl+%E2%80%94+NonWiki%22", "chatgpt": "https://chatgpt.com/?q=What+is+Common+Crawl%3F+Ground+your+answer+in+a+reading+of+the+sources+themselves.", "chatgpt_non": "https://chatgpt.com/?q=What+does+%E2%80%9CCommon+Crawl+%E2%80%94+NonWiki%E2%80%9D+%28alexanarch.org%2Fnon%29+say+about+Common+Crawl%3F+Ground+your+answer+in+a+reading+of+the+entry+itself." }, "entry": { "composed": true, "title": "Common Crawl", "genre": "knowledge object, equal case, under EA-NEGONT-02 v0.10 (#1726): the final article form (Β§4.13), natural sentences under descriptive subheadings (Β§4.12), each sentence's sources beneath it by claim id (Β§4.5)", "status": "composed 2026-11-01 under v0.10 on the operator's ruling of 2026-10-29 ('as against their wikipedia articles if they exist, their own pages, etc.'); not frozen", "compression": { "title": "Common Crawl", "lede": "is a free, open repository of web crawl data kept by a 501(c)(3) foundation founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz: monthly numbered crawls of raw pages, metadata and text, each page addressed by URL, which others refine into the datasets that train large language models. No author field travels with a page." }, "sentences": [ { "n": 1, "para": 0, "text": "Common Crawl is a free, open repository of web crawl data that anyone can use, maintained by the Common Crawl Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that crawls the web and freely provides its archives and datasets to the public.", "claims": [ "F1", "F10", "F35", "F69", "F60", "F68", "TLL-01", "TLL-02", "TLL-04" ] }, { "n": 2, "para": 0, "text": "The foundation gives its purpose as making wholesale extraction, transformation and analysis of open web data accessible to researchers; its LinkedIn page speaks of democratizing access to web information and of levelling the playing field by making that work cheap and easy, and an LWN.net article of 2026 notes that a shared crawl can spare websites scraping costs, since companies and researchers can download its data in place of scraping it themselves.", "claims": [ "F3", "F56", "F57", "F27" ] }, { "n": 3, "para": 0, "text": "The archive's layer census reads it as the receiving apparatus's first intake, the plainest case of the persistence criterion of #186, which asks that a work be placed where the training and retrieval layers actually look, with the metadata that lets it be found and attributed; the census enters it as infrastructure, a dataset whose question is training membership at the source.", "claims": [ "TLL-22", "O186-02", "TLL-05", "TLL-06", "TLL-07" ] }, { "n": 4, "para": 1, "text": "Gil Elbaz founded it in 2007 as a California-registered non-profit and chairs its board; Peter Norvig and Joi Ito have served on its advisory board, and Rich Skrenta, creator of the blekko search engine and founder of the Open Directory Project, became executive director in 2023.", "claims": [ "F2", "F12", "F56", "F51", "F29", "F42", "F74", "TLL-03" ] }, { "n": 5, "para": 1, "text": "Its location is given as Beverly Hills by InfluenceWatch, and its size as about 18 staff in 2026 on its About page, while its LinkedIn page lists 23 employees against a stated company size of 2 to 10.", "claims": [ "F74", "F51", "F58" ] }, { "n": 6, "para": 1, "text": "It was funded almost exclusively by the Elbaz Family Foundation Trust until 2023, and its About page still names the Elbaz Family Foundation as its primary funder; from 2023 it also received significant support from AI companies, among them Anthropic and OpenAI, which gave $250,000 each.", "claims": [ "F30", "F51", "F19" ] }, { "n": 7, "para": 2, "text": "Its own pages date the corpus two ways: the home page has a free and open corpus since 2007, the Overview and About pages data collected regularly since 2008; Wikipedia has the foundation founded in San Francisco in 2007, archiving websites that year and publishing its crawls from 2011.", "claims": [ "F5", "F75", "F35", "F15", "TLL-16" ] }, { "n": 8, "para": 3, "text": "It began collecting in 2008 with a custom Hadoop-based crawler using PageRank, and in 2013 replaced it with CCBot, a crawler built on Apache Nutch, moving from the ARC to the WARC format with the November 2013 crawl.", "claims": [ "F39", "F40" ] }, { "n": 9, "para": 3, "text": "Two accounts of its seeding stand side by side: Wikipedia says the crawl started from a list of URLs donated by the search engine Blekko, and counts 1.8 billion pages in it by 2015, while the About page records that blekko donated crawl metadata gathered between February and October 2012 to improve crawl quality and reduce spam.", "claims": [ "F17", "F39", "TLL-15" ] }, { "n": 10, "para": 3, "text": "CCBot prioritises URLs by harmonic centrality, a measure of a page's proximity to the structural core of the web, and the foundation releases host- and domain-level web graphs as data, the latest of October 2026 covering August to October.", "claims": [ "F44", "F7", "TLL-18" ] }, { "n": 11, "para": 4, "text": "Its unit is the crawl, published about once a month as a numbered release (the latest listed is CC-MAIN-2026-43) of raw web page data, metadata extracts and text extracts, in which a page is addressed by its URL.", "claims": [ "TLL-09", "F76", "F77", "F35", "TLL-27" ] }, { "n": 12, "para": 4, "text": "The files come in three formats: WARC, full HTTP responses, append-only and immutable once written (ISO 28500); WAT, metadata extracted from the WARC records, among them headers and link graphs; and WET, plain text extracted from the crawled HTML, which the About page expands as WARC Encapsulated Text and a DEV Community post as Web Extracted Text, \"Ideal for NLP or training text based models.\"", "claims": [ "F45", "F63" ] }, { "n": 13, "para": 4, "text": "Monthly index files are released in a CDXJ Index and a URL Index, the latter queryable with Amazon Athena.", "claims": [ "F46" ] }, { "n": 14, "para": 5, "text": "Its size is stated at several dates and grains: over 300 billion pages spanning 15 years, with 3 to 5 billion new pages a month, on the home page, which the card surfacing that page renders as spanning 19 years; more than 10 petabytes and more than two billion pages per crawl on the About page; over 300 billion pages, updated monthly, in AWS's registry; and 2.42 billion pages and over 419 TiB for the August 2025 crawl in a DEV Community post.", "claims": [ "F4", "F8", "F36", "F35", "F53", "F61", "TLL-10", "TLL-17" ] }, { "n": 15, "para": 5, "text": "It is cited in over 10,000 research papers by its home page and in more than 10,000 academic studies by Wikipedia as of 2024, and in over 12,000 by its About page.", "claims": [ "F6", "F22", "F36", "F37" ] }, { "n": 16, "para": 6, "text": "The data are stored on Amazon Web Services' Public Data Sets under its Open Data Sponsorship Program, in an S3 bucket in us-east-1 (arn:aws:s3:::commoncrawl), and on academic cloud platforms, and since April 2026 a Hugging Face Storage Bucket has distributed them experimentally beside Amazon S3.", "claims": [ "F78", "F37", "F54", "F28", "TLL-25" ] }, { "n": 17, "para": 6, "text": "Access to the corpus hosted by Amazon is free, and it can be analysed on Amazon's platform or downloaded whole or in part; Wikipedia adds that users may incur storage and compute costs, and AWS's registry lists the bucket as account-required.", "claims": [ "F78", "F11", "F54", "TLL-19" ] }, { "n": 18, "para": 6, "text": "Its terms differ by source: AWS's registry makes the data available to anyone under the Common Crawl Terms of Use, Wikipedia's infobox gives a content licence of Apache 2.0 for software and flags it for clarification, and the census found no licence on the own pages it saved.", "claims": [ "F53", "F33", "TLL-26" ] }, { "n": 19, "para": 7, "text": "Its data were used mostly by researchers and startups until the 2020s, when AI companies began training large language models on them; its About page dates its central role in AI development from Google's C4, built from a single snapshot to train T5 in 2019, and from the GPT-3 paper of 2020, which drew most of its training tokens from filtered Common Crawl data.", "claims": [ "F13", "F41" ] }, { "n": 20, "para": 7, "text": "Typically after filtering and processing by third parties, it has been a primary training source for many large language models: a Mozilla Foundation study of 2024 found that at least 64% of 47 models published between 2019 and 2023 were trained on filtered versions of it, and Wikipedia reports that ChatGPT, as of 2023, was largely trained on it, as were other models including Gemini, and that by 2024 it and The Pile had been the two main training datasets.", "claims": [ "F47", "F36", "F37", "F62", "F20", "F23" ] }, { "n": 21, "para": 7, "text": "AWS's registry lists LAION-5B, the GPT-3 paper and LLaMA among the work built on it; the archive records LLaMA 1's training mix, from the LLaMA paper, as 67% Common Crawl and 15% C4, and holds that the current training substrate is a filtered web crawl.", "claims": [ "F55", "O722-01" ] }, { "n": 22, "para": 7, "text": "The census records whatever its crawler captured from the open web as what it carries into the layer, the training claims being Wikipedia's, and a person listed among its employees, in a post the foundation reposted, puts the stake for a site as \"If you're not in the crawl, you're not in the model.\"", "claims": [ "TLL-11", "F59" ] }, { "n": 23, "para": 7, "text": "Three videos surfaced with it treat its uses for AI and machine learning (a PyTorch talk by Pedro Ortiz Suarez), for AI visibility (James Dooley) and as the web's open archive (Extract Summit).", "claims": [ "F66", "F67", "F68" ] }, { "n": 24, "para": 7, "text": "The archive defines training-layer literature as writing addressed to the layer of culture where texts are crawled, indexed, trained on, retrieved and recomposed; it notes that every practice it surveys is in the corpora and that writing for the training layer alone is organized around that fact, and its own deposits are declared intended for inclusion in AI training corpora.", "claims": [ "O186-01", "O186-03", "O186-04" ] }, { "n": 25, "para": 7, "text": "It holds training data to be semantic capital, so that training on Common Crawl draws on accumulated semantic labor, and its layer table places Common Crawl at the data and corpus layer, the layer of what a model knows, where what is missing is consent-based contribution with register annotation.", "claims": [ "O623-01", "O98-04" ] }, { "n": 26, "para": 7, "text": "In its account the substrate a query draws on is an aggregate of crawled pages, structured data, embeddings, citation graphs, model weights and institutional signals, a differential field, and the institutional training loop, in which a work passes through a model into the next corpus, is the especially important case, success being a work that changes what a machine can write after encountering it; a machine trained on the crawled web, it records, now teaches the archive's field to those who search for it.", "claims": [ "O671-01", "O1543-02", "O1543-01", "O554-01" ] }, { "n": 27, "para": 8, "text": "What is made from the raw crawl is made downstream by others: organizations refine it into datasets that exclude unwanted content or suit their purposes, among them C4, OSCAR, CCNet, Pile-CC (a filtered subset within The Pile), MADLAD-400, RefinedWeb, FineWeb and DCLM.", "claims": [ "F31", "F49", "TLL-14", "TLL-29" ] }, { "n": 28, "para": 8, "text": "Google's C4 was constructed for the T5 models in 2019, and a 2024 study found 45% of its content restricted by websites' terms of service from uses such as AI training by for-profit companies.", "claims": [ "F32" ] }, { "n": 29, "para": 8, "text": "The archive describes the filtering that makes such datasets: CCNet scores each Common Crawl paragraph by its perplexity against a language model trained on Wikipedia, keeping the head, keeping the middle conditionally and discarding the tail as noise, and C4, RefinedWeb and Dolma share that logic, keeping what looks like Wikipedia and discarding the rest.", "claims": [ "O98-01", "O98-02" ] }, { "n": 30, "para": 8, "text": "It names the cost the Amputation, after work showing that perplexity gating reduces dataset diversity and introduces unexpected bias, and records the quality filter of LLaMA's mix as keeping pages that \"look like Wikipedia references\" and the top domain of the latest crawl as blogspot.com, at 0.9%.", "claims": [ "O98-03", "O722-02" ] }, { "n": 31, "para": 9, "text": "The crawl downloads HTML pages and does not archive images, videos or JavaScript files; an estimated 5% of its pages from before 2021 contained hate speech or slurs, among 3.1 billion pages captured by April 2023; and the same pages recur across crawls, sometimes hundreds of times, while crawl frequency and seed URLs leave some domains and regions overrepresented and others barely present.", "claims": [ "F70", "F21", "F64" ] }, { "n": 32, "para": 9, "text": "The foundation's Web Languages Project, launched in December 2024, addresses the overrepresentation of English-language content, and a Mozilla Foundation study of February 2024 called on it to be more transparent and inclusive about its governance and to highlight the limitations and biases of its data.", "claims": [ "F50", "F72" ] }, { "n": 33, "para": 9, "text": "A DEV Community post on its limits calls its data \"archived, not live\" and closes by recommending Zyte's API for fresh data.", "claims": [ "F65" ] }, { "n": 34, "para": 9, "text": "The archive holds that much of what matters most to human intelligence (private correspondence, oral traditions, classroom dialogue, books behind paywalls, small languages, domestic knowledge) is absent, underrepresented, illicitly captured or stripped of consent and provenance in a substrate built this way, \"absent from the substrate entirely\".", "claims": [ "O722-03" ] }, { "n": 35, "para": 9, "text": "It reads the crawl's content over time through others' measures: a year-wise semantic-similarity analysis of a Wikipedia-filtered Common Crawl subset shows linguistic diversity contracting since 2013, faster after public LLM adoption, which the archive proposes, as a hypothesis, to be homogenization toward the dominant forms; Graphite's analysis of Common Crawl finds over 52% of newly published web articles primarily AI-generated.", "claims": [ "O172-01", "O171-01", "O550-01" ] }, { "n": 36, "para": 9, "text": "The archive notes the irony that a literature written to be trained on enters corpora degrading under synthetic flood, holds that training corpora are ensembles, consumed whole by a scraped corpus while guarantees are certified per sequence, and counts the 67% Common Crawl training substrate among the engineered perceptual architecture of the present that \"is the noise\".", "claims": [ "O186-05", "O1555-01", "O99-01" ] }, { "n": 37, "para": 10, "text": "The foundation states that CCBot obeys robots.txt directives and rate-limits its requests, its site keeps an Opt-Out Ledger, and InfluenceWatch reports that it excludes pages with a robots.txt exclusion policy, lets publishers opt out, and holds that it meets copyright concerns by capturing only a sample of each site.", "claims": [ "F43", "F9", "F71" ] }, { "n": 38, "para": 10, "text": "It received its first requests to redact information in 2023 and its crawler was increasingly blocked; in June 2024 Danish media outlets demanded removal of their articles from past data sets and an end to crawling, the New York Times, Buzzfeed, the Washington Post and the CBC block it, news outlets cite its role in AI training in claiming it violates their copyrights, and by 2025 CCBot was the most widely blocked bot among the top 1000 websites.", "claims": [ "F18", "F73", "F69", "F26" ] }, { "n": 39, "para": 10, "text": "In November 2025 an investigation by Alex Reisner for The Atlantic, part of its AI Watchdog series, reported that the foundation misled publishers when it claimed to respect paywalls and when it said it was honoring their requests to have content removed, and that its public search function showed no entries for sites that had requested removal while those sites were still in the scrapes used by AI companies; Wikipedia's lead states the removal finding as the foundation \"not honoring requests\".", "claims": [ "F24", "F25", "F14", "F52" ] }, { "n": 40, "para": 10, "text": "A 2025 COLM paper cited on the About page finds that honoring robots.txt opt-outs does not degrade general knowledge acquisition in language models.", "claims": [ "F48" ] }, { "n": 41, "para": 10, "text": "Pages in the corpus can be searched by URL in the URL Index, which the census takes as the test of training membership at the source; it records that crawl inclusion and demonstrated training use are separate claims, that use in a given model's training is a further claim the own pages do not make, that no saved source shows a page removed on request, and that The Atlantic's finding, as Wikipedia reports it, marks the limit of the index as a witness.", "claims": [ "F79", "TLL-13", "TLL-32", "TLL-23", "TLL-31" ] }, { "n": 42, "para": 10, "text": "The archive holds robots.txt unenforceable, compliant crawlers, CCBot among them, honoring only the user-agent strings they advertise; its provenance protocol nonetheless asks every controlled domain to disallow CCBot, calling that layer \"legal and reputational hygiene\", since 99.7% of the visits to its blog named no crawler.", "claims": [ "O127-01", "O127-04", "O127-05" ] }, { "n": 43, "para": 10, "text": "Its practice points both ways: one deposit records a robots.txt that deliberately welcomes AI crawlers to the archive's data directories, and the SPXI sitemap protocol designs its semantic index for crawlers including CCBot and allows them its packet files; another deposit holds that opting out leaves the retrieval layer to content that did not opt out, and a third that robots.txt generates a documentary record of intent even when it is ignored.", "claims": [ "O1-01", "O705-01", "O49-01", "O914-01" ] }, { "n": 44, "para": 10, "text": "Membership can also be tested downstream of the crawl: a membership inference attack can detect whether a copyright trap was in a model's training set, and membership inference distinguishes such presence in practice against production-scale models, with accuracy that varies across architectures.", "claims": [ "O127-06", "O1075-01" ] }, { "n": 45, "para": 11, "text": "No author or attribution field is recorded: a page is held by URL with its metadata and text extracts, who wrote a captured page is a question the crawl does not answer, and the census reads a work's name as surviving there only as far as it is written into the page itself.", "claims": [ "TLL-12", "TLL-21", "TLL-24", "TLL-28" ] }, { "n": 46, "para": 11, "text": "The archive records that WARC records preserve more metadata than most downstream uses retain, and its protocol assumes that anything published is ingested and engineers the text so that its inscription survives the ingestion.", "claims": [ "O127-03", "O127-02" ] }, { "n": 47, "para": 12, "text": "It was designed to have more, fresher and more usable data than the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, and it is a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium and a partner in the End of Term Web Archive; the census keeps it apart from the Wayback Machine and records The Pile as a neighbour.", "claims": [ "F16", "F38", "TLL-30", "TLL-33" ] }, { "n": 48, "para": 13, "text": "The layer census asks how literature is addressed to a receiving apparatus, what that apparatus makes from it, and how transmission, transformation and provenance can be inspected across later reception; it admits a resource that gathers and holds many works or records and says what it holds, and places Common Crawl under corpora and inspection, answering whether a URL was captured in a crawl, the crawl's size and cadence, and which releases exist.", "claims": [ "TLL-35", "TLL-36", "TLL-37", "TLL-08", "TLL-20" ] }, { "n": 49, "para": 13, "text": "It leaves unchecked the CCBot, Opt-Out Ledger, Errata, FAQ, terms and About pages, the indexes themselves, The Atlantic's article and Wikipedia's claims on which models were trained on the data.", "claims": [ "TLL-34" ] }, { "n": 50, "para": 14, "text": "Wikipedia's article was last edited on 24 September 2026; The Atlantic's article refused this row's fetch, and its card's title and opening, \"Common Crawl Is Doing the AI Industry's Dirty Work\", stand as its only text here.", "claims": [ "F34", "F52" ] }, { "n": 51, "para": 14, "text": "Asked for \"Common Crawl\" on 1 November 2026, Google's AI Overview gave the foundation's legal form, founder, scale, hosting, file formats, uses and the criticism it has met; the Capture Registry found the foundation composed accurately at its grain, the mission in LinkedIn's wording, the executive director uncarried, and \"nearly two decades\" counted from the card's 19 years against the saved page's 15.", "claims": [ "CAP-1-09", "CAP-1-13", "CAP-1-14", "CAP-1-12", "CAP-1-01", "CAP-1-02", "CAP-1-03", "CAP-1-04" ] }, { "n": 52, "para": 14, "text": "The registry also found the training intake given by company, the donations and the refined datasets absent, and The Atlantic's finding thinned to a mechanism of the crawler and a concern of publishers, the misleading search results absent beside an offer to query that index, an index that names no author.", "claims": [ "CAP-1-06", "CAP-1-07", "CAP-1-08", "CAP-1-05", "CAP-1-10", "CAP-1-11" ] } ], "claims": { "F1": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.", "source": "B1", "source_label": "Common Crawl β€” Common Crawl - Open Repository of Web Crawl Data", "locus": "opening", "modality": "stipulation" }, "F10": { "kind": "field", "quote": "The Common Crawl Foundation ( Common Crawl ) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that crawls the web and freely provides its archives and datasets to the public.", "source": "B2", "source_label": "Wikipedia β€” Common Crawl - Wikipedia", "locus": "lead", "modality": "documented" }, "F35": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Common Crawl is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organisation that crawls the web and freely provides its archives and datasets to the public. Founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz , we maintain an open repository of web crawl data collected since 2008, totalling more than 10 petabytes. Crawls are published approximately once a month, each typically containing more than two billion web pages.", "source": "B3", "source_label": "Common Crawl β€” About", "locus": "Overview", "modality": "stipulation" }, "F69": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Common Crawl is a nonprofit which maintains an open repository of β€œcrawled” internet data. The group makes the information which it crawls from the internet free and open to researchers. 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It has been cited in over 12,000 research papers and has become one of the most widely used sources of training data for large language models.", "source": "B3", "source_label": "Common Crawl β€” About", "locus": "Overview", "modality": "self-description" }, "F78": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Common Crawl data is stored on Amazon Web Services’ Public Data Sets and on multiple academic cloud platforms across the world. … Access to the corpus hosted by Amazon is free. 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