OpenAI unveiled a new search engine called SearchGPT last week. Several top publisher sites are already blocking the related OpenAI web crawler, OAI-SearchBot. OpenAI says this new bot doesn't ...

Fastly report reveals Meta, Google, and OpenAI accounted for 95% of AI crawler requests between April and July ...

A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly reveals what it called “a striking shift in the nature of automated web ...

In a debate likely to get louder as AI agent usage grows, some people say Perplexity crawling blocked websites isn't a simple ...

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 ...

The feud underscores the need for new standards in AI-web interaction, as bot detection tools struggle to distinguish between helpful assistants and harmful scrapers.

Web scraping could be used for illegal web crawling, such as stealing content and data, creating online accounts, online spamming, account takeover, stealing competitive pricing models, manipulating ...

Anthropic has rolled out a new API for its line of chatbots, Claude, that now allows it to search the web for various sources of information.

OpenAI said Wednesday its ChatGPT bot now has the ability to search the web using Microsoft’s Bing search engine, putting the chatbot on equal footing with Microsoft and Google’s Bard as the ...

AI scraping bots are threatening the web's grand bargain. OpenAI's GPTbot crawler is being blocked by online content creators.