Google posted a new help document on “Things to know about Google’s web crawling.” While many of those “things to know” are already known, Google felt it would be a good idea to make this document in ...

Google has posted a new help document named Things to know about Google's web crawling. This document currently lists 9 things on how Google's web crawling works. Google said this document was created ...

Scraping Bubble: Companies specializing in scraping or otherwise harvesting publicly available content to train AI models are becoming increasingly common. In particular, some firms are targeting ...

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Googlebot crawled more than 200 times the share reached by PerplexityBot. Civil society and nonprofit organizations became the most-attacked sector for the first time. Global Internet traffic grew 19% ...

Myriam Jessier asked Google about what would be good attributes of a web crawler. In which both Martin Splitt and Gary Illyes gave some responses to. Myriam Jessier asked on Bluesky, "what are the ...

On August 19, 2025, Firecrawl announced the closing of a $14.5 million Series A funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, Y Combinator, and other ...

The Internet Archive can now only crawl Reddit's homepage. Reddit's goal is to block AI firms from scraping Reddit user data. Publishers (and others) are suing AI companies for copyright infringement.

One of the internet's biggest gatekeepers has accused a rising AI star of breaking the web's oldest rules. The explosive feud could change how we all get information online. Reading time 3 minutes A ...

If any AI company were to face allegations of using deceptive web crawling tactics to access website content, few would have expected Perplexity. With its $150 million annual recurring revenue, one ...

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler ...