Google may expand its unsupported robots.txt rules list using HTTP Archive data and could broaden how it handles common misspellings of disallow.

AI search often cites forums and third-party sites for general queries, but local searches behave differently. A Yext study shows that for location-specific queries, the majority of AI citations come ...

TikTok Shop, the platform’s payment processing and ecommerce service, underperformed in 2024 and underwent numerous layoffs and reorgs last year. That being said, TikTok might be doubling down once ...

Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

On Tuesday, eBay updated its User Agreement to explicitly ban third-party “buy for me” agents and AI chatbots from interacting with its platform without ...

Amazon is blocking ChatGPT's AI shopping tools. Links to Amazon pages might not appear in a ChatGPT search. Amazon doesn't want AI bots cutting into its revenue. ChatGPT's new shopping research agent ...

AI models have a voracious appetite for data. Keeping up to date with information to present to users is a challenge. And so companies at the vanguard of AI appear to have hit on an answer: crawling ...

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, wikiHow, and many more content-publishing websites have banded together to keep AI companies from scraping their content without compensation. They’re creating “Really Simple ...

Visual artists want to protect their work from non-consensual use by generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. But most of them do not have the technical know-how or control over the tools needed to do so.

In this article, ExchangeWire research lead Mat Broughton takes a somewhat surrealist look at the house of cards underpinning AI data gathering, and what can be done to protect publishers. Like ...

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