It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions of websites’ robots.txt files in an effort to force Google to change how it crawls ...

People CEO Neil Vogel has criticized web crawlers, accusing technology company Google of being a bad actor. Vogel says his company deploys guards against web crawlers but exempts Google because of the ...

A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly suggests AI crawlers made up almost 80% of all AI bot traffic in recent months – with crawlers from Meta making up more than half of total traffic ...

Myriam Jessier asked Google about what would be good attributes of a web crawler. In which both Martin Splitt and Gary Illyes gave some responses to. Myriam Jessier asked on Bluesky, "what are the ...

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A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly reveals what it called “a striking shift in the nature of automated web traffic” with a recent analysis of traffic indicating that AI crawlers ...

Firecrawl’s co-founder and CEO Caleb Peffer knew the exact moment he found the investor to lead his Series A. He was in a coffee meeting with Nexus Venture Partner’s Abhishek Sharma at the Blue Bottle ...

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, ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

One of the internet's biggest gatekeepers has accused a rising AI star of breaking the web's oldest rules. The explosive feud could change how we all get information online. Reading time: Reading time ...

Cloudflare accused AI answer engine Perplexity of “stealth crawling,” saying it uses deceptive techniques to bypass website blocks and access content it’s been explicitly told not to touch. The big ...

The feud underscores the need for new standards in AI-web interaction, as bot detection tools struggle to distinguish between helpful assistants and harmful scrapers. A public war of words has erupted ...