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

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 ...

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

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

Almost eight in ten of the biggest news websites in the UK and US are now blocking AI training bots. This week in London publishers were told it is “never too late” to begin blocking the bots due to ...

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 ...

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 ...

AI bots are driving increased content scraping, operational load, and high-frequency access patterns, revealing emerging risks from unverified automation traffic. Fastly’s Q1 2025 report found that ...