Cloudflare data shows the top AI labs are strip-mining the web, and it's getting worse not better.

Cloudflare's 2025 internet trends report shows how AI bots are affecting search by bot crawling, specially for user-driven ...

OpenAI has built a new bot that will crawl over the internet, gathering information to educate artificial intelligence systems. Operators of websites will be forced to actively opt out, and block the ...

OpenAI unveiled a new search engine called SearchGPT last week. Several top publisher sites are already blocking the related OpenAI web crawler, OAI-SearchBot. OpenAI says this new bot doesn't collect ...

3D render of a webcrawling cyber-spider. Some of us still remember the "dotcom" boom from 1999-2001 and the "Cambrian explosion" of websites catering to the masses as well as to the long tail of ...

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

BuzzStream analyzed robots.txt files for 100 top news sites. 79% block training bots, but 71% also block retrieval bots that ...

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cloudflare logo on a phone - Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Cloudflare announced a new tool on Tuesday that can allow publishers to charge AI bots for ...