Cloudflare's new pay-per-crawl feature blocks AI crawlers and allows publishers to charge for access, sparking debate in the ...

Major publications have already signed up, including Ziff Davis, The Atlantic, ADWEEK, BuzzFeed, Time, O’Reilly Media, ...

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

Cloudflare introduces solution to protect publishers from AI content appropriation, giving control back to creators for ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Cloudflare has launched a tool that blocks bot crawlers from accessing content without permission or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...