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 ...

Structured datasets save time and simplify data collection for AI and research projects. Pre-built marketplaces and APIs reduce errors and accelerate large-scale scraping. Social media and ...

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 ...

Reports reveal that OpenAI uses Google Search data to answer some of users' questions. The topics that use Google Search data mostly surround news, sports, and financial markets. OpenAI retrieves the ...

As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: web scraping. What began as a fringe tactic by hobbyists has evolved into a ...

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 ...

I'm on a mission to review 1,000 marketing software tools and share my findings with over 100,000 small business owners worldwide. In an age where digital tools can make or break your business, I’m ...

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 ...

Cloudflare, a company that runs 20% of the web, just flipped a switch that could end the open internet as we know it, forcing AI companies to pay for the content they’ve been taking for free. Reading ...

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 ...