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Tag: search engine

  • The Cloudflare Blog: From Googlebot to GPTBot: who’s crawling your site in 2025

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/from-googlebot-to-gptbot-whos-crawling-your-site-in-2025/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: From Googlebot to GPTBot: who’s crawling your site in 2025 Feedly Summary: From May 2024 to May 2025, crawler traffic rose 18%, with GPTBot growing 305% and Googlebot 96%. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the evolution of web crawlers, particularly focusing on the…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/control-content-use-for-ai-training/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content Feedly Summary: Cloudflare is making it easier for publishers and content creators of all sizes to prevent their content from being scraped for AI training by managing robots.txt on their behalf. AI…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-crawl-refer-ratio-on-radar/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers Feedly Summary: Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This helps site owners make decisions about which AI…

  • Slashdot: What are the Carbon Costs of Asking an AI a Question?

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/21/1844252/what-are-the-carbon-costs-of-asking-an-ai-a-question?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: What are the Carbon Costs of Asking an AI a Question? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides insights into the environmental impact of using artificial intelligence, particularly focusing on energy consumption and carbon costs. It highlights how energy usage varies between AI models and…

  • Slashdot: Increased Traffic from Web-Scraping AI Bots is Hard to Monetize

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/14/021246/increased-traffic-from-web-scraping-ai-bots-is-hard-to-monetize Source: Slashdot Title: Increased Traffic from Web-Scraping AI Bots is Hard to Monetize Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report discusses the rising prevalence of AI tools like ChatGPT replacing traditional search engines, with a significant increase in traffic from retrieval bots. It highlights the challenges and opportunities for…

  • Slashdot: Abandoned Subdomains from Major Institutions Hijacked for AI-Generated Spam

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/12/019221/abandoned-subdomains-from-major-institutions-hijacked-for-ai-generated-spam?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Abandoned Subdomains from Major Institutions Hijacked for AI-Generated Spam Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a significant security incident where a spam operation exploited abandoned subdomains of reputable institutions to disseminate AI-generated content. This situation raises concerns regarding the integrity of search results and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-tools-exa

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/29/llm-tools-exa/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-tools-exa Feedly Summary: llm-tools-exa When I shipped LLM 0.26 yesterday one of the things I was most excited about was seeing what new tool plugins people would build for it. Dan Turkel’s llm-tools-exa is one of the first. It adds web search to LLM using Exa (previously),…

  • Slashdot: ‘Some Signs of AI Model Collapse Begin To Reveal Themselves’

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/28/0242240/some-signs-of-ai-model-collapse-begin-to-reveal-themselves?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ‘Some Signs of AI Model Collapse Begin To Reveal Themselves’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the declining quality of AI-driven search engines, particularly highlighting an issue known as “model collapse,” where the accuracy and reliability of AI outputs deteriorate over time due to…