OpenAI has built a new bot that will crawl over the internet, gathering information to educate artificial intelligence systems. Operators of websites will be forced to actively opt out, and block the ...

3D render of a webcrawling cyber-spider. Some of us still remember the "dotcom" boom from 1999-2001 and the "Cambrian explosion" of websites catering to the masses as well as to the long tail of ...

Understanding the difference between search bots and scrapers is crucial for SEO. Website crawlers fall into two categories: This guide breaks down first-party crawlers that can improve your site’s ...

Cloudflare is enhancing robots.txt, giving website owners more control over how AI systems access their data.

In response to Cloudflare blocking Perplexity’s AI bots, the AI company has issued a statement saying that Cloudflare has got nearly everything wrong about how modern AI assistants function. The AI ...

Cloudflare announced a new tool on Tuesday that can allow publishers to charge AI bots for scraping websites. The "pay per crawl" feature was part of Cloudflare's announcement on Tuesday that the ...

Global cloud platform company Cloudflare has accused Perplexity AI of using “stealth, undeclared crawlers” to intentionally ignore websites’ no-crawl directives. In other words, Perplexity is getting ...

Many people aren’t really sure what a bot is and that makes them difficult to prevent. Short for “robot”, a bot is a software application that’s designed to repeat a particular task over and over. SEO ...

Google News' crawling bots will be visiting publisher sites more than ever, especially when news sites post new content, and will return several times in the future to check for updates. Engineers ...