It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions of websites’ robots.txt files in an effort to force Google to change how it crawls ...

Robots.txt tells search engines what to crawl—or skip. Learn how to create, test, and optimize robots.txt for better SEO and site management. Robots.txt is a text file that tells search engine ...

Robots.txt is a small text file that sits on every website. It tells search engines and bots what they’re allowed to see and what they’re not, working like a digital “do not enter” sign. In the early ...

People CEO Neil Vogel has criticized web crawlers, accusing technology company Google of being a bad actor. Vogel says his company deploys guards against web crawlers but exempts Google because of the ...

The CEO of the largest digital and print publisher in the U.S. has accused Google of being a bad actor for crawling its websites to support the search giant’s AI products. Neil Vogel, CEO of People, ...

The aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk in Orem, Utah, has been a maelstrom of misinformation and hatred, revealing how polarized social media and the past decade of digital conflict have ...

Thinking about learning Python? It’s a pretty popular language these days, and for good reason. It’s not super complicated, which is nice if you’re just starting out. We’ve put together a guide that ...

In a nutshell: Several major online platforms annd publishers including Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Ziff Davis, and Quora have announced support for a new licensing standard that allows web publishers and ...

What if you could create your very own personal AI assistant—one that could research, analyze, and even interact with tools—all from scratch? It might sound like a task reserved for seasoned ...

A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly reveals what it called “a striking shift in the nature of automated web traffic” with a recent analysis of traffic indicating that AI crawlers ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...