Why Cloudflare is drawing a line against Perplexity’s bots.

In a debate likely to get louder as AI agent usage grows, some people say Perplexity crawling blocked websites isn't a simple ...

One of the internet's biggest gatekeepers has accused a rising AI star of breaking the web's oldest rules. The explosive feud ...

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to ...

Perplexity says AI tools are different from traditional web searches, while Cloudflare points to obfuscation in forcing access to data even when websites say not to ...

AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content ...

The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all started when Cloudflare published a blog post, ...

Web Guide shifts search from links to meaning. Here's how publishers can adapt to AI-organized SERPs and semantic clustering.

Perplexity defends its AI assistants against Cloudflare's claims, arguing that they are not web crawlers but user-triggered ...

Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure company, has accused AI startup Perplexity of secretly scraping data from ...

Cloudflare blocks Perplexity AI bots for bypassing anti-scraping measures and violating robots.txt and WAF rules.

According to Cloudflare, this behaviour bypasses standard protocols like robots.txt and undermines trust between AI services ...