This last year, Google has gone through a slew of antitrust lawsuit losses in court, with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) pressuring the company to divest out of its popular search engine, Chrome.

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to ...

Perplexity is launching a new revenue-sharing plan for publishers that will pay them every time its AI assistants use an article to answer a question, The Wall Street Journal reports. Perplexity is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anisha Sircar is a journalist covering tech, finance and society. Perplexity AI launched "Comet Plus," a $5/month subscription, ...

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 ...

Perplexity is refreshing its AI shopping agent for the holidays. It'll be free for US-based users on web and desktop. It's part of Perplexity's vision of a more personalized internet. We're just a ...

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Cloudflare announced that they delisted Perplexity’s crawler as a verified bot and are now actively blocking Perplexity and all of its stealth bots from crawling websites. Cloudflare acted in response ...

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 ...