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 collect ...

In an update to Google Analytics, bot traffic will be automatically filtered out of reports for Web + App properties. “In App + Web properties, traffic from bots and spiders is automatically excluded.

The amount of information on the Internet is only equaled by the number of rich resources in any field. As the size and complexity of data sets on the web have grown, collecting and storing this ...

Internet companies have long enjoyed immunity for hosting other people’s content. AI chatbots are changing the legal equation ...

Cloudflare's crawl-to-refer ratio is a solid guide to how much tech companies are taking from the web, and how much they're ...

In preparation for unveiling its own algorithmic search engine, Microsoft's MSN has quietly launched software that will index Web sites, a move that raises questions about MSN's relationship with ...

Have you found yourself hitting a plateau with your organic growth? High-quality content and links will take you far in SEO, but you should never overlook the power of technical SEO. One of the most ...

AI bots want to help with your web searches as well as everything else, and Claude is the latest artificial intelligence assistant to get the ability to look up information online—whether that's the ...

Google continues to add more features to Chat as it becomes available for more and more people ahead of the classic Hangouts depreciation. The Google Chat web app is now integrating Tenor GIF search.

People’s conversations with Claude began popping up in Google search results — just like what happened with ChatGPT and Grok.

A security researcher discovered that Apple's search bots that had been crawling his podcast series had been leaking internal IPs, due to a misconfigured proxy server. And, it took Apple just a little ...

A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly reveals what it called “a striking shift in the nature of automated web traffic” with a recent analysis of traffic indicating that AI crawlers ...