For 20 years, most SEO professionals only cared about Googlebot. However, in the last few years, a host of new crawlers have emerged from different indexing platforms, such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and ...

Cloudflare accused AI answer engine Perplexity of “stealth crawling,” saying it uses deceptive techniques to bypass website blocks and access content it’s been explicitly told not to touch. The big ...

After Cloudflare started testing new features that would allow websites to block AI crawlers or require payment for scraping, the tech company immediately faced questions over the logistics of the ...

The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can access their sites. The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced ...