Baidu blocks Google, Bing from scraping content amid demand for data used on AI projects

Baidu blocks Google, Bing from scraping content amid demand for data used on AI projects

Chinese internet search giant Baidu appears to have started blocking the online search engines of Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft’s Bing from scraping content derived out of the mainland firm’s Wikipedia-style service, a Post survey found. A recent update of Baidu Baike’s robots.txt – a file that tells search engine crawlers which uniform resource locators, commonly … Read more