Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare is blocking AI crawlers by default.

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The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can ...

The era of unrestricted AI crawling appears to be ending - well, at least for the fifth of the internet that flows through ...

Cloudflare has launched a tool that blocks bot crawlers from accessing content without permission or compensation to help ...

Cloudflare is testing a new way for websites to charge AI companies that use their content to train models, run inference, or ...

Cloudflare will block AI bots from crawling websites by default for new customers, and broker pay-per-crawl deals between its ...

OpenAI unveiled a new search engine called SearchGPT last week. Several top publisher sites are already blocking the related OpenAI web crawler, OAI-SearchBot. OpenAI says this new bot doesn't ...

A Microsoft spokesperson told Search Engine Land, "We respect the robots.txt standard. Bing stopped crawling Reddit after they implemented their updated robots.txt file on July 1, which prohibits ...

Reddit wants search engines to pay due to AI training Last week, tech outlet 404 Media reported that Reddit was blocking search engine's like Microsoft Bing and DuckDuckGo from crawling the ...

As of this past week, the only major search engine that still includes Reddit is Google. You won’t find recent Reddit links in Microsoft’s Bing, or get useful results from the platform on ...