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

But the cure may ruin the web.... Opinion With AI's rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills.

The boom of generative AI products over the past few months has prompted many websites to take countermeasures. The basic concern goes like this: AI products depend on consuming large volumes of ...

Cloudflare has built an 'AI labyrinth' to thwart AI companies training data off their customers' content. Credit: Jaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images AI is stealing your content. We know this is how ...

A swarm of artificial intelligence (AI) “crawlers” is running rampant on the Internet, scouring billions of Web sites for data to feed algorithms at leading tech companies — all without permission or ...

Google has updated its Verifying Googlebot and other Google crawlers help document to add a new section describing the three categories or types of crawlers they have. They have their Googlebot ...

Meta has emerged from the Metaverse to become a major player on the AI court. As such, the company has its own team of web crawlers that scrape pages that don’t have the Robots.txt protocol. Or, at ...

Generative AI tools are based on models that use huge amounts of content scraped from the web. OpenAI and Anthropic have said publicly they respect robots.txt and blocks to their web crawlers. Yet, ...

OpenAI said this month it was using its own web crawler to collect training data for ChatGPT. It promised not to crawl websites deploy a decades-old web tool, robots.txt. Some of the biggest names in ...