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web crawlers
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Discussions on WindowsForum.com about web crawlers focus on Cloudflare's data and the debate over AI training data access. The tag covers how companies like Google use web crawlers for both search indexing and AI training, raising questions about control, competition, and publisher impact. Topics include the structural advantages of dual-purpose crawling and implications for AI development and policy.
Cloudflare’s new public push forces a blunt question into the center of the AI debate: can a single company that controls how users discover the web also control who wins the AI race by controlling who can see the web? Cloudflare’s dataset and public statements—backed by company blog posts and...