One advantage Google has here over everyone else is they can tie it to search crawling and say “sure, you can block Gemini but only by blocking GoogleBot”. That

One advantage Google has here over everyone else is they can tie it to search crawling and say “sure, you can block Gemini but only by blocking GoogleBot”. That’s a tradeoff very few would make, whereas there’s not much to lose by blocking OpenAI. This gives Google a massive advantage over competitors in terms of training data.