Gary Illyes says faceted navigation and action parameters dominate Google’s crawl waste, trapping bots in infinite URLs and ...

Understanding the difference between search bots and scrapers is crucial for SEO. Website crawlers fall into two categories: ...

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 ...

Arkose Bot Manager detects malicious bots using network information, IP addresses, and more, then stops them in their tracks using proprietary CAPTCHAs that are more sophisticated and gamelike (“Use ...

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 ...

Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

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 ...

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New data finds AI assistant crawlers increased site coverage even as companies sharply reduced access for AI model training bots.

New Fastly Threat Research Reveals AI Crawlers Make Up Almost 80% of AI Bot Traffic, Meta Leads AI Crawling As ChatGPT Dominates Real-Time Web Traffic AI bots are driving increased content scraping, ...