If there’s one thing that every commercial Web site wants, it is for the search engine spiders to crawl their sites and make them findable. But sites don’t always want to have their entire contents ...

New standards are being developed to extend the Robots Exclusion Protocol and Meta Robots tags, allowing them to block all AI crawlers from using publicly available web content for training purposes.

In a recent edition of my Network World on Web Applications newsletter titled Belgians want REP replaced with ACAP I discussed an initiative to replace the established Robot Exclusion Protocol (REP) ...

Reddit announced on Tuesday that it’s updating its Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt file), which tells automated web bots whether they are permitted to crawl a site. Historically, robots.txt file ...

Robots.txt tells search engines what to crawl—or skip. Learn how to create, test, and optimize robots.txt for better SEO and site management. Robots.txt is a text file that tells search engine ...

Perplexity, a company that describes its product as "a free AI search engine," has been under fire over the past few days. Shortly after Forbes accused it of stealing its story and republishing it ...

Perplexity wants to change how we use the internet, but the AI search startup backed by Jeff Bezos might be breaking its rules to do so. The company appears to be ignoring a widely accepted web ...

The debate over content scraping took a new turn on Friday when TollBit, a content licensing startup, alleged that artificial intelligence companies are bypassing a web standard used by publishers to ...