Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.

Cloudflare set a trap for Perplexity, and the AI startup crawled right into it. This has lessons for other AI companies ...

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

Google's explanation for the rosy outlook? "With AI Overviews, people are searching more and asking new questions that are ...

Google’s former SSP practices are the legal gift that keeps giving; Perplexity has been disregarding robots.txt files; and ...

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

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to ...

AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it AI search biz Perplexity ...

Some websites go out of their way to block AI from scraping their content, but according to Cloudflare, Perplexity is ...

Perplexity defends its AI assistants against Cloudflare's claims, arguing that they are not web crawlers but user-triggered ...

Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said the move was motivated by Google's future plans to charge for the use of the reCAPTCHA service, which would have "added millions of dollars in ...

Cloudflare Apps developers are eligible for Google Cloud Platform credits that range from $3,000 to $100,000. Startups that apply for the incentives will go through an approval process.