Cloudflare will auto-convert HTML to Markdown for AI crawlers, cutting tokens by 80% — but it may encourage cloaking.

Cloudflare launched Markdown for Agents, converting HTML pages to markdown automatically when AI crawlers request it through content negotiation.

Why serve up tough HTML when you can offer tasty Markdown? Cloudflare has turned its attention from erecting bot barriers to dangling bot bait.… Having previously devised a mechanism to make AI ...

Google Search Advocate John Mueller pushed back on the idea of serving raw Markdown files to LLM crawlers, raising technical concerns on Reddit and calling the concept “a stupid idea” on Bluesky.

Centric Software® is pleased to announce that it has been named in Gartner's Competitive Landscape: Retail Unified Price, ...