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 ...

Internet traffic is up 19% in 2025, according to Cloudflare Radar. Meanwhile, ChatGPT is the most-blocked service on the internet. But .Christmas is the most dangerous domain on the planet for spam ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — When University at Buffalo chemists analyzed samples of water, fish, and bird eggs, they weren’t surprised to find plenty of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). After all, ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. The Common Crawl Foundation is little known outside of Silicon Valley. For more ...

The Dungeon Crawler Carl books have consistently been one of my favorite LitRPG reads. They are the perfect blend of comedy, sci-fi, and what feels like a video game all wrapped up into an incredibly ...

Samuel Cornell receives funding from an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. Hunter Bennett does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

The issue began on August 8, 2025 and is now being resolved. It is unclear what percentage of sites were impacted. Google has confirmed it fixed an issue with its crawlers impacting “some sites.” The ...

Myriam Jessier asked Google about what would be good attributes of a web crawler. In which both Martin Splitt and Gary Illyes gave some responses to. Myriam Jessier asked on Bluesky, "what are the ...

Firecrawl’s co-founder and CEO Caleb Peffer knew the exact moment he found the investor to lead his Series A. He was in a coffee meeting with Nexus Venture Partner’s Abhishek Sharma at the Blue Bottle ...

The Internet Archive can now only crawl Reddit's homepage. Reddit's goal is to block AI firms from scraping Reddit user data. Publishers (and others) are suing AI companies for copyright infringement.