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 ...

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 ...

Ticketek has added a chatbot called ‘Stella’ to its website as a “conversational” interface that customers can use to find ...

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

The bots that quietly map the internet—the unseen engines behind search—are starting to shift the balance of power online. For decades, Google’s web crawler set the pace for how information was ...

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