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I think this will be the end of Google as a search engine. I don't see how website owners don't start charging bots for scraping their content.
by guluarte 1y ago
I think this will be the end of Google as a search engine. I don't see how website owners don't start charging bots for scraping their content.
- Karawebnetwork 1y agoSee: "Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access" https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/
- IAmGraydon 1y agoI love Cloudflare, and they're very wise to spin up this service. I wonder how well it will work.
- IAmGraydon 1y agoIt's definitely the beginning of the end of Google Search IMO. Extremely small sample size, but me and many people I know have started running the majority of searches that end in a question mark (actual questions) in an LLM, and not Google's LLM. Google is only used as a sort of phone book - when I need to look up the URL of a site by inputting the name, or when I want to find a particular article I previously read. I would say my usage of Google has reduced by about 75% (seat-of-the-pants estimate). It's just better to do it this way, and I have to imagine that this sentiment will spread. Google will have to survive on other products, like YouTube. I see a massive contraction of their employee base in the not-so-distant future. Low-return products that are subsidized by the massive revenue of search will likely be cut as well if they can't be monetized more effectively (which will ruin them).