Internet traffic is up 19% in 2025, according to Cloudflare Radar. Meanwhile, ChatGPT is the most-blocked service on the internet. But .Christmas is the most dangerous domain on the planet for spam ...

Googlebot crawled more than 200 times the share reached by PerplexityBot. Civil society and nonprofit organizations became the most-attacked sector for the first time. Global Internet traffic grew 19% ...

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 ...

In this Python Web Scraping Tutorial, we will outline everything needed to get started with web scraping. We will begin with simple examples and move on to relatively more complex.

The issue began on August 8, 2025 and is now being resolved. It is unclear what percentage of sites were impacted. Google has confirmed it fixed an issue with its crawlers impacting “some sites.” The ...

On August 19, 2025, Firecrawl announced the closing of a $14.5 million Series A funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, Y Combinator, and other ...

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 ...

The Internet Archive can now only crawl Reddit's homepage. Reddit's goal is to block AI firms from scraping Reddit user data. Publishers (and others) are suing AI companies for copyright infringement.

If any AI company were to face allegations of using deceptive web crawling tactics to access website content, few would have expected Perplexity. With its $150 million annual recurring revenue, one ...

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler ...

Cloudflare Accuses AI Startup of ‘Stealth Crawling Behavior’ Across Millions of Sites Your email has been sent Cloudflare is accusing Perplexity of using stealth crawlers to bypass site restrictions, ...

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to ...