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AI bots, including ChatGPT-User, are accessing forbidden web pages despite robots.txt rules. OpenAI justifies this as us...

Saeed Ashif Ahmed

August 17, 2026

OpenAI argues robots.txt rules may not apply to ChatGPT’s fetch bot for user-initiated requests, leading to widespread d...

Palumbo Angela

August 14, 2026

Google updates crawl budget documentation, advising the use of 304 Not Modified status codes to save server resources an...

Joyce de Castro

August 3, 2026

Google clarified its crawl budget documentation, confirming that crawl capacity adjusts automatically and is shared acro...

Joyce de Castro

July 23, 2026

OpenAI’s automated web crawling operations have experienced a substantial surge, with overall activity roughly tripling...

Saeed Ashif Ahmed

April 29, 2026