Cloudflare data shows the top AI labs are strip-mining the web, and it's getting worse not better.

In tech, it’s trendy to offer something “as a service” — to deliver it online, usually for a subscription fee. We’ve seen software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, data-as-a-service, and more. Now ...

If any AI company were to face allegations of using deceptive web crawling tactics to access website content, few would have expected Perplexity. With its $150 million annual recurring revenue, one ...

80legs launched last fall with the goal of offering Web crawling for the masses — in other words, it offered relatively cheap technology to help companies browse and index data from the Web, as giant ...

The deep web constitutes a vast reservoir of content that remains inaccessible to conventional search engines due to its reliance on dynamic query forms and non-static pages. Advanced crawling and ...

To meet the web content crawlability and indexability needs of large language models, a new standards proposal for AI/LLMs by Australian technologist Jeremy Howard is here. His proposed llms.txt acts ...

Crawl-first SEO focuses on two of the main parts of the search engine infrastructure: crawling and indexing. If all the pages on a site aren’t crawled, they can’t be indexed. And if your pages can’t ...