Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations: ...

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...

Will you be affected by Trump’s cuts to Medicaid, food stamps and other social programs? Contact the WSWS and tell us your story. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that 326,000 people in ...

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 ...

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...

Abstract: This paper explores the power of Beautiful Soup, a Python library, for web scraping. We delve into the advantages of web scraping for data acquisition, highlighting its limitations and ...

I'm on a mission to review 1,000 marketing software tools and share my findings with over 100,000 small business owners worldwide. In an age where digital tools can make or break your business, I’m ...

AI is not magic. The tools that generate essays or hyper-realistic videos from simple user prompts can only do so because they have been trained on massive data sets. That data, of course, needs to ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On Tuesday, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced that it will block AI bots from scraping data from its ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...