Cloudflare is enhancing robots.txt, giving website owners more control over how AI systems access their data.

In an update to Google Analytics, bot traffic will be automatically filtered out of reports for Web + App properties. “In App + Web properties, traffic from bots and spiders is automatically excluded.

Cloudflare's crawl-to-refer ratio is a solid guide to how much tech companies are taking from the web, and how much they're giving back.

AI bots want to help with your web searches as well as everything else, and Claude is the latest artificial intelligence assistant to get the ability to look up information online—whether that's the ...

The amount of information on the Internet is only equaled by the number of rich resources in any field. As the size and complexity of data sets on the web have grown, collecting and storing this ...

Perplexity responded swiftly with its own post, pointing out that its use of third-party crawlers was actually significantly less than Cloudflare was saying. But the crux of Perplexity’s rebuttal was ...

Web search is such a routine part of daily life that it’s easy to forget how marvelous it is. Type into a little text box and a complex array of technologies—vast data centers, ravenous web crawlers, ...

Microsoft has announced that the Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot protection feature has reached general availability on Azure Application Gateway starting this week. Azure Web Application Firewall ...