On August 19, 2025, Firecrawl announced the closing of a $14.5 million Series A funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, Y Combinator, and other ...

The so-called surface web is readily accessible to all of us and thereby, less interesting. No wonder you came here asking how to get on the dark web. Yeah, we know what you’re thinking – or some of ...

Abstract: Extracting effective information from massive data and mining potentially valuable relationships has become a hot topic in the current research field. Web crawler has the function of ...

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 ...

If any AI company were to face allegations of using deceptive web crawling tactics to access website content, few would have expected Perplexity. With its $150 million annual recurring revenue, one ...

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler ...

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 ...

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After Cloudflare started testing new features that would allow websites to block AI crawlers or require payment for scraping, the tech company immediately faced questions over the logistics of the ...