Perplexity, a growing artificial intelligence company, has been repeatedly crawling websites against the wishes of content owners, prompting a wave of concern over digital ethics and user privacy ...

A Web Crawling Code of Conduct Unfortunately, and somewhat understandably, it’s easier to focus on the murky underbelly of Web crawling. People gravitate more to stories about organizations ...

Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again The company's bots appear to be 'stealth crawling' sites that have them blocked.

OpenAI has launched GPTBot, a web crawler aimed at enhancing the future of online content.

Cloudflare finds that Perplexity AI is 'repeatedly modifying' the company’s web-crawling bots to evade data-scraping measures ...

On August 19, 2025, Firecrawl announced the closing of a $14.5 million Series A funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners, ...

Cloudflare has accused AI startup Perplexity of dodging web restrictions and disguising its identity to scrape sites. Perplexity denies wrongdoing and calls the claims a fundamental ...

A web crawler (also known as a web spider or web robot) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. This process is called Web crawling or ...