The boom of generative AI products over the past few months has prompted many websites to take countermeasures. The basic concern goes like this: AI products depend on consuming large volumes of ...

Today, one company—Google—controls nearly all of the world’s access to information on the internet. Their monopoly in search means for billions of people, their gateway to knowledge, to products, and ...

Cloudflare's Year in Review shows Googlebot crawled 200 times more pages than PerplexityBot. Global Internet traffic grew 19% ...

With that, Google expanded how Google products are affected by each crawler and gave robots.txt examples for each crawler. Google made a series of updates to its crawlers and user-triggered fetchers ...

The content economy is in trouble. AI crawlers read websites, summarize information, and offer answers without sending users to the original source. The result? A dramatic drop in traffic from AI ...

Search engine crawlers (also called bots) comb through all the content they can find on the internet. They do so by following internal links within websites and links across different websites. The ...

When you look for something online using a keyword, the search engine goes through trillions of pages to create a list of results that are related to your keyword, according to CloudFlare. So how do ...

Search marketers should work with webmasters and know how to secure data that Google, Bing, Yahoo and other engines should not index. "Not for public release" often starts off as the text for pages ...

Robots.txt just turned 30 – cue the existential crisis! Like many hitting the big 3-0, it’s wondering if it’s still relevant in today’s world of AI and advanced search algorithms. Spoiler alert: It ...

Image: The rack of a broken monitor or TV is the texture of a television screen, background for superimposing with the effect of grain noise, Александр Розов. Adobe Stock 1050902471 AI search tools ...