ai crawlers

Microsoft is urging publishers and retailers to stop treating AI crawlers as intruders and start making their sites readable to bots, after Nikhil Kolar, Microsoft AI’s vice president of publisher product, argued at AdExchanger’s Programmatic AI event in Las Vegas that blocking agents risks...

The data from Tinuiti’s Q1 2026 AI Citations Trends study has crystallized a startling shift in how generative assistants find and cite evidence: community-driven content—above all, Reddit—now appears as one of the most frequently cited sources in AI answers, and social media as a whole is no...

On October 24, Microsoft Azure’s automated DDoS protection neutralized an unprecedented, multi‑vector flood that reached a peak of 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps) and nearly 3.64 billion packets per second (pps) against a single public IP in Australia — an event Azure says it mitigated without...

Cloudflare’s latest push to give publishers more control over how their content is used by AI systems marks a significant turning point in the long-running tussle between website owners, search engines, and the new generation of AI crawlers. The company’s new Content Signals Policy — layered on...

AI crawlers—often viewed as the digital equivalent of eager, information-hungry “spiders”—are rapidly becoming a hot topic among website administrators and digital marketers. As these AI-powered bots expand their reach in web indexing and content analysis, many in the Windows community are...