Cloudflare's Year in Review shows Googlebot crawled 200 times more pages than PerplexityBot. Global Internet traffic grew 19%. Googlebot crawled more than 200 times the share reached by PerplexityBot.

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AI search firm Perplexity has sharply rebutted accusations from web security giant Cloudflare that it uses deceptive “stealth crawlers” to improperly scrape website data. In a public statement issued ...

Cloudflare claims Perplexity ignores websites' wishes in its content hunt. Other AI companies, such as OpenAI, don't wipe content, Cloudflare says Cloudflare now offers services to block aggressive AI ...

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to ...

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than ...