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Google’s moat is that websites aren’t blocking their crawler.
by layer8 3mo ago
Google’s moat is that websites aren’t blocking their crawler.
- echelon 3mo agoThe once unthinkable is now changing. https://nypost.com/2026/07/22/business/reddit-news-outlets-weigh-cutting-google-off-as-ai-summaries-kill-traffic-report/ https://nypost.com/2026/07/22/business/reddit-news-outlets-w... https://www.wsj.com/business/media/google-search-publishers-ai-content-0fb06e41 https://www.wsj.com/business/media/google-search-publishers-...
- inigyou 3mo agoCloudflare has just announced that it's about to start blocking Googlebot by default, because it's an AI crawler. To which, I cannot say with enough emphasis: OUCH. This kills Google Search. All hail Cloudflare Search, the new center of the internet!