Amazon is blocking ChatGPT's AI shopping tools. Links to Amazon pages might not appear in a ChatGPT search. Amazon doesn't want AI bots cutting into its revenue. ChatGPT's new shopping research agent ...

The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), commonly known as robots.txt, has been a web standard since 1994 and remains a key tool for website optimization today. This simple yet powerful file helps control ...

Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a solution to end AI crawlers hammering websites to ...

Perplexity was discovered to be actively bypassing blocks from websites to scrape content in 2024, and a new report shows that it has continued with increasing sophistication as the company defends ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

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 ...

Perplexity disguised its AI crawlers and rotated its IPs to get around restrictions, according to Cloudflare. Perplexity disguised its AI crawlers and rotated its IPs to get around restrictions, ...

Imagine this: you’re in the middle of an important project, juggling deadlines, and collaborating with a team scattered across time zones. Suddenly, your computer crashes, and hours of work vanish in ...

Provide a robots.txt to forbid crawling and block the crawlers if they do it anyway. You need some knowledge about .htaccess and mysql. You have a robots.txt or create a robots.txt in every server ...

In every corner of the SEO world, llms.txt is popping up in conversations, but it is frequently misunderstood and sometimes poorly explained. If you’ve heard someone call it “the new robots.txt,” or ...