It is with deep sorrow that we announce the end of robots.txt, the humble text file that served as the silent guardian of digital civility for thirty years. Born on February 1, 1994, out of necessity ...

Web infrastructure giant Cloudflare has launched a major update to the internet’s three-decade-old rulebook for web crawlers. The company has introduced its “Content Signals Policy,” a new extension ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google has steadily been updating Gemini since its debut in 2023, giving its AI chatbot more capabilities and functionality over time. Now, it looks like the company has finally addressed one of the ...

In this article, ExchangeWire research lead Mat Broughton takes a somewhat surrealist look at the house of cards underpinning AI data gathering, and what can be done to protect publishers. Like ...

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 ...

Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure company, has accused AI startup Perplexity of secretly scraping data from websites that clearly said “no.” According to Cloudflare, Perplexity has been ...

The file manager might not be a feature on your desktop that you've ever considered changing, but once you've seen a better option, you can't unsee it. I've used nearly every file manager on the ...

Users could potentially allow access to the entire drive because of the way Microsoft implements OAuth in OneDrive File Picker. Using Microsoft OneDrive to upload a file to ChatGPT, Slack, or Zoom ...

The humble robots.txt file often sits quietly in the background of a WordPress site, but the default is somewhat basic out of the box and, of course, doesn’t contribute towards any customized ...