Google's dominant position in crawling the web may allow it to remain head of its competitors even in the AI race. This was revealed by recent data shared by Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. According ...

Googlebot once again generated more traffic than any other crawler in 2025, according to a new Cloudflare report. It outpaced every search and AI bot as Google continued crawling the web for search ...

The bots that quietly map the internet—the unseen engines behind search—are starting to shift the balance of power online. For decades, Google’s web crawler set the pace for how information was ...

In this Python Web Scraping Tutorial, we will outline everything needed to get started with web scraping. We will begin with simple examples and move on to relatively more complex.

On August 19, 2025, Firecrawl announced the closing of a $14.5 million Series A funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, Y Combinator, and other ...

The Internet Archive can now only crawl Reddit's homepage. Reddit's goal is to block AI firms from scraping Reddit user data. Publishers (and others) are suing AI companies for copyright infringement.

One of the internet's biggest gatekeepers has accused a rising AI star of breaking the web's oldest rules. The explosive feud could change how we all get information online. Reading time: Reading time ...

If any AI company were to face allegations of using deceptive web crawling tactics to access website content, few would have expected Perplexity. With its $150 million annual recurring revenue, one ...

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler ...

The internet’s reliance on trust is being challenged by the rise of AI-powered answer engines employing stealthy crawling techniques. Cloudflare recently observed such behavior from Perplexity, an AI ...