Cloudflare 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:

Cloudflare 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!