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, which services about 20% of websites, announced Tuesday that it is now blocking web-scraping AI bots from accessing those sites by default. Unless a website explicitly turns off the ...

Microsoft's Clarity has released a way to identify patterns that show how AI crawlers, search bots, and automated agents interact with web content long before AI agents serve up citation or referral ...

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 ...

Identifying and preventing malicious bot traffic has long been mission critical. According to Imperva’s 2025 Bad Bot Report, ...