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 ...

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, wikiHow, and many more content-publishing websites have banded together to keep AI companies from scraping their content without compensation. They’re creating “Really Simple ...

Visual artists want to protect their work from non-consensual use by generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. But most of them do not have the technical know-how or control over the tools needed to do so.

In this article, ExchangeWire research lead Mat Broughton takes a somewhat surrealist look at the house of cards underpinning AI data gathering, and what can be done to protect publishers. Like ...

Cloudflare claims Perplexity ignores websites' wishes in its content hunt. Other AI companies, such as OpenAI, don't wipe content, Cloudflare says Cloudflare now offers services to block aggressive AI ...

Google’s SSP practices during the waterfall-to-header-bidding transition are the lawsuit gift that keeps giving. In addition to the DOJ trial (Google lost) and the Texas trial (which still hasn’t ...

Perplexity was discovered to be actively bypassing blocks from websites to scrape content in 2024, and a new report shows that it has continued with increasing sophistication as the company defends ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

A new report from Cloudflare claims that Perplexity has been scraping content from websites that have opted to block AI web scrapers. The company says that Perplexity's continued attempts to hide its ...

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 ...