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 ...

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 ...

When you look for something online using a keyword, the search engine goes through trillions of pages to create a list of results that are related to your keyword, according to CloudFlare. So how do ...

Entrepreneurs behind popular websites including iFixit, Read the Docs, and Freelancer.com claim to have experienced disruptive traffic booms from bots designed by AI startup Anthropic to scour the web ...

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 ...

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 ...

iFixit’s CEO says ClaudeBot hit the website’s servers ‘a million times in 24 hours.’ iFixit’s CEO says ClaudeBot hit the website’s servers ‘a million times in 24 hours.’ is a news writer focused on ...

An open licensing standard that aims to make AI companies pay for the content they vacuum up across the web is now an official specification. Really Simple Licensing 1.0 — or RSL for short — gives ...

Researchers in Simon Fraser University's International Cybercrime Research Centre are expanding their Child Exploitation Network Extractor (CENE)—an online "web crawler" that identifies and tracks ...