Have you ever held a magnifying glass to your computer monitor and counted the pixels one by one? That’s the level of detail revealed about your website by search engine crawlers: every word, title, ...

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 ...

In the past few years, digital marketing has changed and evolved. It is no longer about using the right keywords and posting quality content regularly. Many new elements like user experience, local ...

Web crawlers, used by search engines like Google and Bing to scan websites and index content, are also used by AI companies to train LLMs. These models learn from the content of websites and any other ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantzig, a global data analytics and advisory firm, that delivers actionable analytics solutions to resolve complex business problems brings to you comprehensive insights ...

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to ...

In the beginning, there were hits. Today, hits are largely discredited as a measure of Web site traffic, since they count individual files served up. A single Web page can account for a dozen or more ...

A swarm of artificial intelligence (AI) “crawlers” is running rampant on the Internet, scouring billions of Web sites for data to feed algorithms at leading tech companies — all without permission or ...

Last week, Federico and I asked Robb Knight to do what he could to block web crawlers deployed by artificial intelligence companies from scraping MacStories. Robb had already updated his own site’s ...

It’s no secret that every business needs to have a successful website to succeed, but the art of generating traffic and building loyal audiences has become more nuanced in today’s landscape. The ...

Content owners are wising up to their work being freely used by Big Tech to build new AI tools. Bots like Common Crawl are scraping and storing billions of pages of content for AI training. With less ...