Understanding the difference between search bots and scrapers is crucial for SEO. Website crawlers fall into two categories: ...

Cloudflare, which services about 20% of websites, announced Tuesday that it is now blocking web-scraping AI bots from accessing those sites by default. Unless a website explicitly turns off the ...

Global cloud platform company Cloudflare has accused Perplexity AI of using “stealth, undeclared crawlers” to intentionally ignore websites’ no-crawl directives. In other words, Perplexity is getting ...

Identifying and preventing malicious bot traffic has long been mission critical. According to Imperva’s 2025 Bad Bot Report, ...

Microsoft's Clarity has released a way to identify patterns that show how AI crawlers, search bots, and automated agents interact with web content long before AI agents serve up citation or referral ...

Cloudflare will block AI bots from crawling websites by default for new customers, and broker pay-per-crawl deals between its customers and bot operators. Cloudflare will block AI crawlers from ...

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Almost eight in ten of the biggest news websites in the UK and US are now blocking AI training bots. This week in London publishers were told it is “never too late” to begin blocking the bots due to ...