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Perplexity and Cloudflare clash over AI crawler blocking tactics
Instead, the AI firm claims Cloudflare confused Perplexity requests with unrelated traffic from BrowserBase, a third-party ...
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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Are AI Crawlers User-Driven Tools or Malicious Bots? The Perplexity-Cloudflare Dispute In Focus
Should AI-powered web crawlers be categorised as user-driven tools or malicious bots? Dive in to find the answer.
Cloudflare vs. Perplexity: a web scraping war with big implications for AI
Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to ...
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 ...
Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping
Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added ...
AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says
AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation ...
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson slams AI firms for stealing copyrighted material like Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’
News Corp boss Robert Thomson called on the White House to crack down on AI companies from swiping copyrighted material -- ...
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How Perplexity Ranks Content: Key Factors and Tips to Boost Your Ranking
Overview Perplexity AI favours structured, authoritative, and concise content from trusted sources.New rules prioritise ...