The internet feels simple to use, but behind every search result, price comparison and trending topic is a system quietly collecting and organizing information. Two key methods power much of this ...

Googlebot once again generated more traffic than any other crawler in 2025, according to a new Cloudflare report. It outpaced every search and AI bot as Google continued crawling the web for search ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. The Common Crawl Foundation is little known outside of Silicon Valley. For more ...

EXCLUSIVE: Will Brittain (Kong: Skull Island) and Katherine Hughes (Tell Me Lies) have wrapped starring roles in The Crawling, a cosmic horror-thriller marking the debut feature of writer-director ...

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.

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 ...

Cloudflare Accuses AI Startup of ‘Stealth Crawling Behavior’ Across Millions of Sites Your email has been sent Cloudflare is accusing Perplexity of using stealth crawlers to bypass site restrictions, ...

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Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to ...

"She’d been standing, but she hadn’t been walking," her dad said after the race WNBA/Instagram A baby girl shocked the crowd when she stood up and walked for the first time ever during a crawling race ...

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than ...

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