In an update to Google Analytics, bot traffic will be automatically filtered out of reports for Web + App properties. “In App + Web properties, traffic from bots and spiders is automatically excluded.

OpenAI unveiled a new search engine called SearchGPT last week. Several top publisher sites are already blocking the related OpenAI web crawler, OAI-SearchBot. OpenAI says this new bot doesn't collect ...

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Ticketek has added a chatbot called ‘Stella’ to its website as a “conversational” interface that customers can use to find ...

Despite selling fewer handsets than Android, Apple's profits make it the undisputed king of the mobile phone market. Now, Apple could be set to attack Google's main source of profit as the company ...

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A developer has discovered that Apple appears to be crawling HTML websites with its own automated bot, but the exact purpose of the mysterious homegrown software remains unknown. Evidence of Apple's ...