People CEO Neil Vogel has criticized web crawlers, accusing Google, the technology heavyweight, of being a bad actor.

People CEO Neil Vogel says Google's AI crawler can't be blocked because it would block the web crawler too. This lets the ...

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Cloudflare's crawl-to-refer ratio is a solid guide to how much tech companies are taking from the web, and how much they're ...

Online media brands, including Yahoo, Quora and Medium, are taking a new step to prevent AI companies from copying and using ...

For whom the bill tolls Content creation and delivery companies have introduced a digital licensing mechanism in an effort to compensate media makers when AI companies use their work.… The Really ...

On August 19, 2025, Firecrawl annoncerede the closing of a $14.5 million Series A funding round led by Nexus Venture-partnere, with participation from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, Y Combinator, and other ...

The latest annual Python Developers Survey, born from a collaboration between the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains, took the pulse of over 30,000 developers to see what makes the community ...

Perplexity, the SoftBank-backed AI search app, is embroiled in a spat with Cloudflare over claims it employs “undeclared crawlers” to get around AI scraping restrictions. Last month, Cloudflare ...

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 ...

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler ...