bot management
AssessTools
Controls and policies for identifying, allowing, or blocking automated crawlers and agents.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 2 article(s) of evidence from 2 source(s), led by product launches, with 0 in the last 30 days. Confidence 37%.
Evidence (2)
- 7Cloudflare Blog·7/1/2026researchCloudflare launches program to improve AI search and content value
Cloudflare announced new bot controls and a research program aimed at making AI search smarter by using signals such as content freshness and quality to reduce unnecessary crawling. The company also said it wants to help creators get compensated when their content is used to answer user queries, addressing the shift from traditional search clicks to AI-generated summaries.
- 7The New Stack·6/26/2026product_launchShopify launches Catalog to help AI agents match duplicate product listings
Shopify has introduced Catalog, a system that uses LLMs to organize merchant product data so AI shopping agents can identify and compare equivalent items across different listings. The move comes as retailers adapt to more product discovery happening through AI-driven search and shopping assistants, and as the industry works toward shared standards like the Universal Commerce Protocol.