ecently, it pulled off one of the most controversial moves the web has seen this year. It claimed to have scraped nearly the ...

Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi over massive data scraping on Search results. Is public search data truly free for ...

For more than a decade, The Metals Company has poured millions of dollars into researching and developing technology for ...

The free internet encyclopedia is the seventh-most visited website in the world, and it wants to stay that way. Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad ...

A giant colonial spiderweb in a sulfuric cave on the border between Greece and Albania may be the largest ever found — and it was built by spiders we didn't know liked the company of others. When you ...

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

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 ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

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 ...

However, actions have a habit of inspiring reactions. Lawsuits are mounting as more media companies take on the AI giants over copyright, which may yet prove decisive—recent rulings notwithstanding.