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Crawl Release
June 2026 Crawl Archive Now Available
We are happy to announce the release of the June 2026 crawl archive, consisting of 2.10 billion web pages, or 354.59 TiB of uncompressed content.
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News
Answers to Recent Community Questions
In this post we respond to the most common questions. Thanks for all the support and please keep the questions coming!




News
Common Crawl Enters A New Phase
A little under four years ago, Gil Elbaz formed the Common Crawl Foundation. He was driven by a desire to ensure a truly open web. He knew that decreasing storage and bandwidth costs, along with the increasing ease of crunching big data, made building and maintaining an open repository of web crawl data feasible.




News
Video: Gil Elbaz at Web 2.0 Summit 2011
Hear Common Crawl founder discuss how data accessibility is crucial to increasing rates of innovation as well as give ideas on how to facilitate increased access to data.




Analysis
SlideShare: Building a Scalable Web Crawler with Hadoop
Common Crawl on building an open Web-Scale crawl using Hadoop.
