Blocking AI bots is an important first step towards an open web licensing marketplace, but web publishers will still need AI companies (especially Google) to participate in the marketplace as buyers.

The battle over who controls online content – and who gets paid for it – is heating up. For years, AI companies have scraped ...

Google's Gary Illyes recommends using robots.txt to block crawlers from "add to cart" URLs, preventing wasted server resources. Use robots.txt to block crawlers from "action URLs." This prevents ...

Search engines such as Google and Bing, and generative AI such as ChatGPT, use programs called crawlers to collect huge amounts of information from the Internet and use it for search results and AI ...

Google's Gary Illyes highlights robots.txt file's error tolerance and unexpected features as it marks 30 years of aiding web crawling and SEO. Review your robots.txt ...

Tsukuba, Japan – Scientists from the Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems at the University of Tsukuba devised a text message mediation robot that can help users control their anger when ...