Googlebot once again generated more traffic than any other crawler in 2025, according to a new Cloudflare report. It outpaced every search and AI bot as Google continued crawling the web for search ...

After announcing earlier this year a framework for an open AI ecosystem, the nonprofit Creative Commons has come out in favor of “pay-to-crawl” technology — a system to automate compensation of ...

Googlebot crawled more than 200 times the share reached by PerplexityBot. Civil society and nonprofit organizations became the most-attacked sector for the first time. Global Internet traffic grew 19% ...

Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold. By Alexandra Alter Alexandra Alter ...

When you’re getting into web development, you’ll hear a lot about Python and JavaScript. They’re both super popular, but they do different things and have their own quirks. It’s not really about which ...

AI-powered browsers like ChatGPT Atlas aren’t just browsers with little ChatGPT picture-in-picture boxes off to the side answering questions. They also have “agentic capabilities,” meaning they can ...

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For some reason, the Wayback Machine, the Internet Archive’s well-known web snapshotting operation, appears to be enduring a recession of sorts. The project, which relies on web crawlers to catalog ...

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 ...

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Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, today released its Q2 2025 Threat Insights Report, exposing a striking shift in the nature and scale of automated web traffic.

The latest annual Python Developers Survey, born from a collaboration between the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains, took the pulse of over 30,000 developers to see what makes the community ...