Abstract: Web scraping, often known as web crawling, is employing software to gather data from websites automatically. It is a procedure that is very crucial in domains like business intelligence in ...

The free internet encyclopedia is the seventh-most visited website in the world, and it wants to stay that way. Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad ...

In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, Reddit accused an AI search engine, Perplexity, of conspiring with several companies to illegally scrape Reddit content from Google search results, allegedly dodging ...

Cybersecurity professionals recognize that enterprise networks are prime targets for dark web risks such as ransomware, unauthorized insider activity, and data exfiltration. What’s less obvious is ...

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...

Ensuring communications sent to state and local government agency clients are clear and understandable is crucial to ensure that individuals and families receive the services they need. Social ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On Tuesday, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced that it will block AI bots from scraping data from its ...

What just happened? Cloudflare is experimenting with a new way to prevent AI crawlers from scraping website content. The CDN/security company has announced that it will block them from accessing ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...