Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold. By Alexandra Alter Alexandra Alter ...

TOPSHOT - A robot using artificial intelligence is displayed at a stand during the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, on May 30, 2024. Humanity is in a ...

The bots that quietly map the internet—the unseen engines behind search—are starting to shift the balance of power online. For decades, Google’s web crawler set the pace for how information was ...

In this Python Web Scraping Tutorial, we will outline everything needed to get started with web scraping. We will begin with simple examples and move on to relatively more complex.

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the automatic extraction of customer pain points from open reviews using the “Review to Pain Matrix” pipeline. The objective of this study is to develop a systematic ...

On August 19, 2025, Firecrawl aangekondigd the closing of a $14.5 million Series A funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, Y Combinator, and ...

The latest annual Python Developers Survey, born from a collaboration between the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains, took the pulse of over 30,000 developers to see what makes the community ...

The Internet Archive can now only crawl Reddit's homepage. Reddit's goal is to block AI firms from scraping Reddit user data. Publishers (and others) are suing AI companies for copyright infringement.

One of the internet's biggest gatekeepers has accused a rising AI star of breaking the web's oldest rules. The explosive feud could change how we all get information online. Reading time 3 minutes A ...

Cloudflare claims Perplexity ignores websites' wishes in its content hunt. Other AI companies, such as OpenAI, don't wipe content, Cloudflare says Cloudflare now offers services to block aggressive AI ...

If any AI company were to face allegations of using deceptive web crawling tactics to access website content, few would have expected Perplexity. With its $150 million annual recurring revenue, one ...