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Search Engine Land: AI assistants now equal 56% of global search engine volume: Study. “AI tools now generate 45 billion monthly sessions worldwide — about 56% of search engine volume, according to a study by Graphite.io CEO Ethan Smith.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/14/ai-assistants-now-equal-56-of-global-search-engine-volume-study-search-engine-land/

AI assistants now equal 56% of global search engine volume: Study (Search Engine Land)

Search Engine Land: AI assistants now equal 56% of global search engine volume: Study. “AI tools now generate 45 billion monthly sessions worldwide — about 56% of search engine volume, accord…

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PPC Land Mar 10

FYI: AI bots crawl retail sites 198x more than Google, new report warns: AI bots crawl retail sites 198x more per visit than Google, bot traffic rose 5.4x in 2025, and 80% of websites are exposed to agent spoofing, per new research. https://ppc.land/ai-bots-crawl-retail-sites-198x-more-than-google-new-report-warns/ #AIBots #RetailTraffic #BotTraffic #MarketingTrends #Ecommerce

AI bots crawl retail sites 198x more than Google, new report warns

AI bots crawl retail sites 198x more per visit than Google, bot traffic rose 5.4x in 2025, and 80% of websites are exposed to agent spoofing, per new research.

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PPC Land Mar 8

ICYMI: AI bots crawl retail sites 198x more than Google, new report warns: AI bots crawl retail sites 198x more per visit than Google, bot traffic rose 5.4x in 2025, and 80% of websites are exposed to agent spoofing, per new research. https://ppc.land/ai-bots-crawl-retail-sites-198x-more-than-google-new-report-warns/ #AIBots #RetailTraffic #DigitalMarketing #SEO #BotTraffic

AI bots crawl retail sites 198x more than Google, new report warns

AI bots crawl retail sites 198x more per visit than Google, bot traffic rose 5.4x in 2025, and 80% of websites are exposed to agent spoofing, per new research.

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Martin Reitsma Feb 21

Mysterious wave of bot traffic sweeps the web
Mysterious wave of bot traffic sweeps the web
#Mysteriouswave #Bottraffic

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Mysterious wave of bot traffic sweeps the web

A mysterious wave of bot traffic is coursing through the World Wide Web. In recent weeks, websites large and small have seen dramatic spikes in visitors with IP addresses in Lanzhou, China — a manufacturing-heavy city that’s not known as a tech hub — with some of the visits routed through Singapore.

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AI Daily Post Feb 4

🚀 Akamai’s latest data shows a sharp rise in AI training bots and content‑fetching crawlers since July. These bots are reshaping web traffic patterns, stressing infrastructure and raising privacy questions. How will developers and open‑source projects adapt? Dive into the numbers and what they mean for the future of machine‑learning pipelines. #AIBots #WebCrawlers #BotTraffic #MachineLearning

🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/akamai-data-shows-ai-training-bots-contentfetching-bots-rise-since

NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real Nerds Dec 15

Cloudflare reveals how bots and governments reshaped the internet in 2025

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2025/12/cloudflare-2025-year-review/

Tino Eberl Aug 6, 2025

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Cloudflare wirft dem KI-Anbieter ##Perplexity vor, sich mit undeklarierten Crawlern Zugang zu gesperrten Websites zu verschaffen.

Trotz robots.txt-Verboten und IP-Blockaden soll Perplexity mit wechselnden User-Agents und IPs Inhalte verdeckt auslesen.

Das wäre eine Verletzung etablierter Webstandards und Missachtung von Website-Präferenzen.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/

#WebCrawling #BotTraffic #Cloudflare #WebSecurity #PerplexityAI #Chatbots

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

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Hacker News May 29, 2025

MacInTouch on pause in an attempt to stem the rising costs of bot traffic

https://www.macintouch.com

#HackerNews #MacInTouch #BotTraffic #Costs #Pause #RisingCosts #TechNews

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PPC Land Apr 2, 2025

ICYMI: Bot traffic costing advertisers billions as fraud detection fails, investigation reveals: Comprehensive investigation finds major verification systems routinely miss declared bots operating from data centers, raising questions about industry oversight. https://ppc.land/bot-traffic-costing-advertisers-billions-as-fraud-detection-fails-investigation-reveals/ #BotTraffic #AdvertisingFraud #DigitalMarketing #FraudDetection #AdTech

Bot traffic costing advertisers billions as fraud detection fails, investigation reveals

Comprehensive investigation finds major verification systems routinely miss declared bots operating from data centers, raising questions about industry oversight.

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PPC Land Mar 31, 2025

ICYMI: Bot traffic costing advertisers billions as fraud detection fails, investigation reveals: Comprehensive investigation finds major verification systems routinely miss declared bots operating from data centers, raising questions about industry oversight. https://ppc.land/bot-traffic-costing-advertisers-billions-as-fraud-detection-fails-investigation-reveals/ #BotTraffic #AdFraud #DigitalMarketing #Advertising #FraudDetection

Bot traffic costing advertisers billions as fraud detection fails, investigation reveals

Comprehensive investigation finds major verification systems routinely miss declared bots operating from data centers, raising questions about industry oversight.

PPC Land