In an update to Google Analytics, bot traffic will be automatically filtered out of reports for Web + App properties. “In App + Web properties, traffic from bots and spiders is automatically excluded.

OpenAI unveiled a new search engine called SearchGPT last week. Several top publisher sites are already blocking the related OpenAI web crawler, OAI-SearchBot. OpenAI says this new bot doesn't collect ...

With AI chatbots gaining ground as search tools, their ability to scour the internet will become a key factor in determining their success. Finally, Anthropic's Claude has joined its competitors. Also ...

Perplexity responded swiftly with its own post, pointing out that its use of third-party crawlers was actually significantly less than Cloudflare was saying. But the crux of Perplexity’s rebuttal was ...

AI bots want to help with your web searches as well as everything else, and Claude is the latest artificial intelligence assistant to get the ability to look up information online—whether that's the ...

Ticketek has rolled out a new AI chatbot built with Google Cloud, raising questions about how the tool learns, searches and ...

In preparation for unveiling its own algorithmic search engine, Microsoft's MSN has quietly launched software that will index Web sites, a move that raises questions about MSN's relationship with ...