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Perplexity AI Makes $34.5 Billion Bid for Google's Chrome

Controversial AI outfit Perplexity puts in speculative $34.5 billion bid for the Chrome browser, but Google never said it was selling

It feels inevitable that Google will eventually be forced spin off its Chrome web-browser and sell it to the highest bidder. There are just too many concerns over the influence Chrome has regarding Google's stranglehold on web search.

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Why Perplexity is going after Google Chrome - and yes, it's serious

Perplexity made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google's web browser and claims it has the backing to pull it off.

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Before Wild Chrome Bid, Perplexity Had Been Hunting for Browsers

Perplexity made headlines this week when the artificial intelligence startup said it had offered to buy Google’s Chrome, the world’s largest internet browser, for a price amounting to nearly double its valuation.

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Perplexity AI Is Reportedly Evading Website No-Crawl Directives

Cloudflare has accused Perplexity AI of evading website no-crawl directives, scraping online content without permission. More ...

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Cloudflare Blames Perplexity Of Stealth Data Scraping – Perplexity Refutes

Recently, Cloudflare and Perplexity came at odds recently as the former alleged Perplexity of stealth data scraping.

Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it

In a debate likely to get louder as AI agent usage grows, some people say Perplexity crawling blocked websites isn't a simple ...

Perplexity says Cloudflare's accusations of 'stealth' AI scraping are based on embarrassing errors

First, Cloudflare accused the AI company of bypassing no-crawl directives. Now Perplexity says Cloudflare has it all wrong.

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Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites

To test this, Cloudflare says it created new domains with similar restrictions against Perplexity’s AI scrapers. It found ...

Cloudflare Delists And Blocks Perplexity From Crawling Websites

Cloudflare blocks Perplexity due to deceptive crawling behavior, including rotating IP addresses and ignoring robots.txt ...

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Cloudflare Claims Perplexity Scrapes Data From Websites With AI Blockers

Cloudflare has since removed Perplexity's bots from its list of verified bots and implemented new AI-blocking techniques.

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Cloudflare-Perplexity tiff highlights how misguided AI agents are on the web

Perplexity says AI tools are different from traditional web searches, while Cloudflare points to obfuscation in forcing access to data even when websites say not to ...

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Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity Of Scraping Websites Blocked From AI Scraping

Cloudflare is accusing the AI-powered answer engine Perplexity of using "stealth crawling behavior" to scrape content from ...

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This Week In Security: Perplexity V Cloudflare, GreedyBear, And HashiCorp

The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all started when Cloudflare published a blog post, ...

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