The web is tired of getting harvested for chatbots.

The TOCOL and TOROW functions are just two ways to rearrange data in Microsoft Excel. For example, you can flip the rows and ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a part of everyday life. It is visible in medical chatbots that guide patients and in generative tools that assist artists, writers, and developers. These ...

Once in a codependent relationship, Microsoft and OpenAI have decided it's probably best if they both start seeing other companies.

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 ...

It's AI versus the internet as Cloudflare and Perplexity have a public falling out over the 'stealth crawling' of restricted websites. The disagreement has spiralled to name calling, even, as ...

Search is changing at a breakneck pace, with Google rolling out new AI features so quickly it can be hard to keep up. So far, these AI implementations are being offered in addition to the traditional ...

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 ...

OpenAI is working on a web browser. Wasn't that the big thing in the 1990s? Why would Sam Altman and Co. be interested? It might not seem like it at first, but a web browser makes sense. OpenAI kicked ...

Hundreds of browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge have adopted a new monetization tactic: tapping into your PC’s resources to scrape the web. Although not strictly malware – and often ...

Cloudflare is now experimenting with tools that will allow content creators to charge a fee to AI crawlers to scrape their websites. In a blog Tuesday, Cloudflare explained that its "pay-per-crawl" ...

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 ...