Come 15 September, multipurpose crawlers used by the likes of Google, Microsoft and Apple will be blocked by default according to Cloudflare’s new rules. IT and network services provider Cloudflare ...

Cloudflare reshapes the AI landscape by blocking Big Tech AI bot crawlers by default, allowing websites to demand payment for content access.

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 ...

From 15 September, Cloudflare will block crawlers that harvest content for AI training from any page carrying ads, unless the owner opts in, and pay publishers when their work shapes an AI answer. It ...

Google quietly added a new bot to their crawler documentation that crawls on behalf of commercial clients of their Vertex AI product. The documentation says that the new crawler may crawl sites at the ...