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AI search fight: Cloudflare and Perplexity clash over crawling

Cloudflare says Perplexity evades crawl directives with stealth tactics; Perplexity calls the claims a misunderstanding – or ...

An AI data trap catches Perplexity impersonating Google

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

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 ...

How Perplexity ranks content: Research uncovers core ranking factors and systems

A researcher reveals Perplexity’s ranking logic, including entity reranking, manual domain boosts, and signals driving ...

Perplexity accused of breaking a major online AI scraping rule - but it says it has done nothing wrong

Cloudflare says Perplexity obscures its crawling activity to go undetected when it's presented with a network block.
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I Switched to Perplexity’s AI Comet Browser for a Week. Is It the Future or Just Hype?

AI is everywhere now—including web browsers. At the moment, though, most people don’t use AI browsers, opting instead for the ...

Cloudflare calls out Perplexity for hiding 'crawling activity' as AI bot scrapes websites that explicitly disallow it, Perplexity responds by calling them 'more flair than cloud'

It's AI versus the internet as Cloudflare and Perplexity have a public falling out over the 'stealth crawling' of restricted ...

One AI prompt, two white collar jobs ‘gone’: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas's bold claim sparks debate

Perplexity AI's CEO Aravind Srinivas introduced Comet, an AI-powered browser poised to revolutionize white-collar automation.