 From ABC News Tech Trends, the robot's exclusion protocol is a technology used in web design that's kind of like a no trespassing sign. It is really important so that web developers can keep companies from accessing their content who they don't want to. Wired editor Tim Marchman says they found that an AI company called Perplexity, which sells itself as an AI search engine, is actually dodging that protocol. It or an agent operating on its behalf