AI's appetite for scraped content, without returning readers, is leaving site owners and content creators fighting for survival.

Web scraping is the process of using automated software, like bots, to extract structured data from websites. There are many applications for web scraping, including monitoring product retail prices, ...

While most people have heard of web scraping, far fewer likely realize just how widespread the practice actually is. As technology has grown incrementally, professionals from various industries have ...

Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting and organizing data from websites, allowing organizations to gather large amounts of information from the web. This information allows ...

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 ...

Cloud connectivity company, Cloudflare, is waging a war against AI bot crawlers. Web scraping, a phenomenon that began accelerating as the power of AI advanced, has crossed legal lines as AI firms are ...

Tech giants are rewriting the rules on web scraping, blaming unnamed third parties for disregarding robots.txt, and seemingly claiming the right to reuse anything posted anywhere for AI. Now, ...

Cloudflare flagged the alleged web-scraping after receiving complaints from customers, who were specifically blocking Perplexity’s bots from indexing their sites. Cloudflare then verified the claims ...