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I feel like website owners are going to have to block Bing's crawler soon. They are effectively remixing content from multiple sites using AI to create knowledg
by ren_engineer 4y ago
I feel like website owners are going to have to block Bing's crawler soon. They are effectively remixing content from multiple sites using AI to create knowledge panels that reduce clicks to the actual websites. Not sure how this dynamic will work long term if it keeps going, Bing and Google are going to kill off a lot of websites and then will have nothing to scrape for content
- nico 4y agoThis might end up killing websites altogether. Also SEO spam and search.
- sebzim4500 4y agoI would be willing to bet a lot of money that no websites are going to block Google and Bing's crawlers over this. Less traffic is better than no traffic.
- nolok 4y agoAgreed, it's what happened during each of the major changes to google images. Every image site got their traffic tanked, but you still want to be in there.
- rejectfinite 4y agoNobody goes to websites anymore. Its all apps for Youtube, Netflix and Tiktok.
- pxtail 4y agoAgree, I think that sooner or later brands and advertisers will need to pay to get results included directly in the models output, websites will be completely skipped. This will have a lot of repercussions - giants will probably have offer to put data in the model directly somehow but I doubt it will be free. I'm wondering if paywalling the content would be right move for someone who has popular website with curated, high quality knowledge and audience - this may work only for some time because discoverability will tank, traffic and current audience dry out..