# Cloudflare

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Updated: 2026-09-20

Cloudflare operates internet infrastructure and publishes primary data and product decisions about AI crawlers, content access, bot controls and pay-per-crawl experiments.

Source: https://blog.cloudflare.com/

Description comes from Cloudflare's public product and research posts; image comes from its official GitHub organization. Checked September 19, 2026.

## Referenced in 101

- [Content Independence Day](https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compensation/) — AI crawling creates a distribution and bargaining problem for publishers because content consumption can increase while referral traffic disappears.
- [Introducing Pay Per Crawl](https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/) — Pay Per Crawl experiments with a machine-readable price on AI access, turning an invisible fetch into an explicit economic transaction.
- [The crawl before the fall of referrals](https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-crawl-refer-ratio-on-radar/) — Crawler request volume varies sharply by bot and does not reveal whether an assistant cited, recommended or transacted with a product.
- [The crawl-to-click gap](https://blog.cloudflare.com/crawlers-click-ai-bots-training/) — More AI crawling can coincide with fewer referrals, so publishers need separate measures for access, inclusion, citation, action and value.

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