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Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.
Cloudflare, which powers many of the world’s most prominent websites, made waves last week by introducing a default setting ...
Cloudflare urges Google to let publishers block AI Overviews without affecting search rankings or SEO performance.
A week or so ago, Cloudflare announced it would block AI bots by default and offer a new pay per crawl initiative to ...
Google challenges Cloudflare’s anti-scraping tech; are dupes plagiarism?; web traffic is careening off a cliff.
Cloudflare has announced that its new "pay per crawl" model, which charges AI crawlers for data, is in beta, and site owners ...
The era of unrestricted AI crawling appears to be ending - well, at least for the fifth of the internet that flows through ...
Cloudflare (NET) is a $67 billion provider of global cloud services that comprise a suite of deeply integrated products, ...
Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.
Cloudflare reshapes the AI landscape by blocking Big Tech AI bot crawlers by default, allowing websites to demand payment for ...
Major publications have already signed up, including Ziff Davis, The Atlantic, ADWEEK, BuzzFeed, Time, O’Reilly Media, ...
Cloudflare has launched a tool that blocks bot crawlers from accessing content without permission or compensation to help ...