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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 ...

After announcing earlier this year a framework for an open AI ecosystem, the nonprofit Creative Commons has come out in favor of “pay-to-crawl” technology — a system to automate compensation of ...

Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold. By Alexandra Alter Alexandra Alter ...

AI visibility plays a crucial role for SEOs, and this starts with controlling AI crawlers. If AI crawlers can’t access your pages, you’re invisible to AI discovery engines. On the flip side, ...

When you’re getting into web development, you’ll hear a lot about Python and JavaScript. They’re both super popular, but they do different things and have their own quirks. It’s not really about which ...

AI-powered browsers like ChatGPT Atlas aren’t just browsers with little ChatGPT picture-in-picture boxes off to the side answering questions. They also have “agentic capabilities,” meaning they can ...

For some reason, the Wayback Machine, the Internet Archive’s well-known web snapshotting operation, appears to be enduring a recession of sorts. The project, which relies on web crawlers to catalog ...

News publishers are actively fighting back against unauthorized AI web scraping, abandoning polite requests for aggressive technical defenses. Companies are deploying cyber tactics like AI Tarpits and ...

With web publishers in crisis, a new open standard lets them set the ground rules for AI scrapers. (Or, at least it will try.) The new Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard creates terms that ...

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The latest annual Python Developers Survey, born from a collaboration between the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains, took the pulse of over 30,000 developers to see what makes the community ...