OpenAI has built a new bot that will crawl over the internet, gathering information to educate artificial intelligence systems. Operators of websites will be forced to actively opt out, and block the ...

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Some of us still remember the "dotcom" boom from 1999-2001 and the "Cambrian explosion" of websites catering to the masses as well as to the long tail of people seeking very specific content. All you ...

Spiderbots have been crawling the web for years collecting data. Some of these bots have been helpful because they send users to sources of original content online. The rise of generative AI and LLMs ...

AI bots are driving increased content scraping, operational load, and high-frequency access patterns, revealing emerging risks from unverified automation traffic. Fastly’s Q1 2025 report found that ...

With all the talk about ChatGPT and other AI bots, did you know that there is an OpenAI ChatGPT bot and it respects the robots.txt protocol? So if you want, you can block OpenAI's ChatGPT bot from ...

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OpenAI is reportedly scaling up its crawling infrastructure for the holiday shopping season. The folks at Merj noticed OpenAI adding a lot of new IP ranges for its bots and crawlers. Ryan Siddle from ...

Understanding the difference between search bots and scrapers is crucial for SEO. Website crawlers fall into two categories: This guide breaks down first-party crawlers that can improve your site’s ...