Googlebot once again generated more traffic than any other crawler in 2025, according to a new Cloudflare report. It outpaced every search and AI bot as Google continued crawling the web for search ...

After announcing earlier this year a framework for an open AI ecosystem, the nonprofit Creative Commons has come out in favor of “pay-to-crawl” technology — a system to automate compensation of ...

Googlebot crawled more than 200 times the share reached by PerplexityBot. Civil society and nonprofit organizations became the most-attacked sector for the first time. Global Internet traffic grew 19% ...

Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold. By Alexandra Alter Alexandra Alter ...

RSL 1.0 helps publishers outline how AI companies should pay for the content they scrape across the web. RSL 1.0 helps publishers outline how AI companies should pay for the content they scrape across ...

When you’re getting into web development, you’ll hear a lot about Python and JavaScript. They’re both super popular, but they do different things and have their own quirks. It’s not really about which ...

AI-powered browsers like ChatGPT Atlas aren’t just browsers with little ChatGPT picture-in-picture boxes off to the side answering questions. They also have “agentic capabilities,” meaning they can ...

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For some reason, the Wayback Machine, the Internet Archive’s well-known web snapshotting operation, appears to be enduring a recession of sorts. The project, which relies on web crawlers to catalog ...

News publishers are actively fighting back against unauthorized AI web scraping, abandoning polite requests for aggressive technical defenses. Companies are deploying cyber tactics like AI Tarpits and ...

With web publishers in crisis, a new open standard lets them set the ground rules for AI scrapers. (Or, at least it will try.) The new Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard creates terms that ...

In a nutshell: Several major online platforms annd publishers including Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Ziff Davis, and Quora have announced support for a new licensing standard that allows web publishers and ...