Cloudflare set a trap for Perplexity, and the AI startup crawled right into it. This has lessons for other AI companies ...

Google’s former SSP practices are the legal gift that keeps giving; Perplexity has been disregarding robots.txt files; and ...

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

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 ...

To test this, Cloudflare says it created new domains with similar restrictions against Perplexity’s AI scrapers. It found ...

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, ...

Google's explanation for the rosy outlook? "With AI Overviews, people are searching more and asking new questions that are ...

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

Internet security giant Cloudfare says Perplexity deployed "stealth crawlers" to evade restrictions and scrape content from ...

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