A number of news and media publishers are already blocking AI web crawlers from accessing their sites, worried about the impact on traffic when all their work is swept up into AI chatbot experiences.

Web crawlers, used by search engines like Google and Bing to scan websites and index content, are also used by AI companies to train LLMs. These models learn from the content of websites and any other ...

Google introduces GoogleOther, a new web crawler, to alleviate strain on Googlebot and optimize crawling operations. GoogleOther handles non-essential tasks like R&D crawls, allowing Googlebot to ...