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 ...

Google GOOGL may be celebrating its 25 th anniversary today. But who remembers the pre-Google world of search? As in such once-prominent search engines as AltaVista, Excite, Lycos, WebCrawler and even ...

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Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl series is one of those rare and incredible publishing success stories. An example of LitRPG, which combines elements of fantasy, sci-fi and gaming, Dinniman’s ...

The CEO of the largest digital and print publisher in the U.S. has accused Google of being a bad actor for crawling its websites to support the search giant’s AI products. Neil Vogel, CEO of People, ...

Myriam Jessier asked Google about what would be good attributes of a web crawler. In which both Martin Splitt and Gary Illyes gave some responses to. Myriam Jessier asked on Bluesky, "what are the ...

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 ...

Last year, internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare launched tools enabling its customers to block AI scrapers. Today the company has taken its fight against permissionless scraping several steps ...

The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can access their sites. The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced ...

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