Overview: Web crawling focuses on discovering and listing pages across the internet at scaleWeb scraping pulls specific data like prices or headlines from known ...

Generative AI has upended this rough compromise. Cutting-edge models are trained on as much high-quality data as AI companies ...

Google has filed a lawsuit against a company that extracted and resold in bulk content included in Google search results.

SerpApi and similar firms do fulfill a need, but they sit in a legal gray area. Google does not provide an API for its search results, which are based on the world’s largest and most comprehensive web ...

In recent months, surveys have confirmed that for a rapidly expanding user base around the world, artificial intelligence (AI ...

The findings, detailed in Fastly’s Q3 Threat Insights Report, found that while humans still account for the majority of web ...

An open licensing standard that aims to make AI companies pay for the content they vacuum up across the web is now an official specification. Really Simple Licensing 1.0 — or RSL for short — gives ...

The specification includes an XML vocabulary for describing content usage, licensing, and legal terms of service. The RSL ...

The war over who controls internet content just hit a new milestone. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced that his company blocked more than 416 billion AI bot requests since July, when the tech ...

Tollbit, a biz that aims to help publishers monetize AI traffic through access fees for crawlers, said in its Q2 2025 report ...

As a result, AI became a central driver of internet traffic in 2025. As Cloudflare CEO and co-founder Matthew Prince said in a statement, "The internet isn't just changing, it's being fundamentally ...