Baidu Restricts Google and Bing From Scraping Content for AI Training

Chinese internet search provider Baidu has updated its Wikipedia-like Baike service to prevent Google and Microsoft Bing from scraping its content. This change was observed in the latest update to the Baidu Baike robots.txt file, which denies access to Googlebot and Bingbot crawlers. According to the Wayback Machine, the change took place on August 8. … Continue reading Baidu Restricts Google and Bing From Scraping Content for AI Training