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

Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.

Google's explanation for the rosy outlook? "With AI Overviews, people are searching more and asking new questions that are ...

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

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

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to ...

To test this, Cloudflare says it created new domains with similar restrictions against Perplexity’s AI scrapers. It found ...

Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure company, has accused AI startup Perplexity of secretly scraping data from ...

AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it AI search biz Perplexity ...

Some websites go out of their way to block AI from scraping their content, but according to Cloudflare, Perplexity is ...

Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said the move was motivated by Google's future plans to charge for the use of the reCAPTCHA service, which would have "added millions of dollars in ...

With AMP ads, Google and its partners aim to make ads load fast again. The new partners Google is announcing today are native ad network TripleLift and performance and security company Cloudflare.