How LLMs Fetch Web Pages: The Full Chain of Crawling, Fetching, and Parsing
LLMs don't browse the web. They fetch HTML, parse structure, strip boilerplate, chunk, embed it, then retrieve the best chunk with a citation at answer time.
Oct 11, 2026
LLMs don't browse the web. They fetch HTML, parse structure, strip boilerplate, chunk, embed it, then retrieve the best chunk with a citation at answer time.
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