With 20% of the web behind its platform, Cloudflare will now block AI web crawlers from scraping monetized content by default ...

Google’s former SSP practices are the legal gift that keeps giving; Perplexity has been disregarding robots.txt files; and ...

Australian Associated Press (AAP) has announced a multi-year deal with Google that will see its news content used to “enhance ...

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

Perplexity made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google's web browser and claims it has the backing to pull it off.

Cloudflare is accusing the AI-powered answer engine Perplexity of using "stealth crawling behavior" to scrape content from ...

Cloudflare set a trap for Perplexity, and the AI startup crawled right into it. This has lessons for other AI companies scraping data from the web.

Recently, Cloudflare and Perplexity came at odds recently as the former alleged Perplexity of stealth data scraping.

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to lawsuits from publishers like Dow Jones and the BBC.

At best, Perplexity's reputation among major AI players isn't exactly exemplary. Cloudflare recently claimed, just as a for ...

AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content ...

To test this, Cloudflare says it created new domains with similar restrictions against Perplexity’s AI scrapers. It found that the startup will first attempt to access the sites by identifying itself ...