SourceHut, an open source git-hosting service, says web crawlers for AI companies are slowing down services through their excessive demands for data.… "SourceHut continues to face disruptions due to ...

Entrepreneurs behind popular websites including iFixit, Read the Docs, and Freelancer.com claim to have experienced disruptive traffic booms from bots designed by AI startup Anthropic to scour the web ...

Websites claim they’re collateral damage for the AI revolution’s voracious appetite for information—but companies like Anthropic and OpenAI say their bots aren’t to blame. Kyle Wiens recognized ...

As publishers grapple with declining traffic thanks to AI, Cloudflare changes the default to 'block AI crawlers unless they pay creators' via a new system it's calling 'pay per crawl.' Emily is an ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More Cloudflare has introduced a new system that aims to give ...

Project Barcelona aims to create a metadata information server with crawlers for Microsoft products to help businesses cope with their data explosion Business data is growing so fast that the task of ...

Cloudflare's new pay-per-crawl feature blocks AI crawlers and allows publishers to charge for access, sparking debate in the SEO industry over content visibility and monetization. Cloudflare now ...

Content Creators, Want to Charge or Block AI Crawlers? Here’s Cloudflare’s Solution Your email has been sent Cloudflare’s new pay per crawl system, which also applies to site owners, is currently in a ...