New Data Shows Just How Badly OpenAI And Perplexity Are Screwing Over Publishers
AI companies promised publishers their AI search engines would send them more readers via referral traffic. New data shows that’s not the case.
As AI scraping surges, AI search traffic fails to follow: Report
AI bot scraping doubled from Q3 to Q4 of 2024. But the click-through rates from AI search remain abysmal – at less than 1% ...
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AI Scavengers: Scraping Is Growing In Volume, Undermining Business For Publishers
Scraping growth accelerated, doubling in volume per website from Q3 to Q4 2024. Scrapes per page more than tripled, and there were 40% more unauthorized scrapes in Q4. Moreover, ToolBit determined ...
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TollBit's New Tool Helps Publishers Monetize AI Bots Scraping Their Content
TollBit is offering Content Cache to its publisher partners for free for up to 3 million bot accesses per month per site.
News Corp sued by Brave Software, a Google search engine rival
News Corp has been sued by Google search engine rival Brave Software, which seeks to forestall a lawsuit by Rupert Murdoch's ...
AI search engines send 96% less traffic to news sites compared to Google search: Report
A new report published by Forbes details how AI search engines are sending as much as 96% less traffic to news websites and ...
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AI search engines send 96% less referral traffic to news sites and blogs than traditional Google search
Companies like OpenAI and Perplexity promised in the past that the AI search engines their models offer would provide new ...
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Am I Going to Jail for Web Scraping?
Is it legal to mine data from a public website? Let's take a detailed look at recent lawsuits and controversies surrounding the practice of web scraping. Zelenskyy ready to exchange presidency for ...