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Google itself now captures a lot of traffic with LLM generated site summaries. For media/news businesses that make their money from readership, it is unsustain
by Joel_Mckay 3mo ago
Google itself now captures a lot of traffic with LLM generated site summaries.
For media/news businesses that make their money from readership, it is unsustainable to subsidize Alphabets content farm. Thus, understandable people would change their corporate posture with a search turned scraper company. =3
- inigyou 3mo agoThis is why Cloudflare banned Googlebot. Googlebot is no longer a search engine bot and now an AI scraping bot.
- lostmsu 3mo agoNo, Cloudflare banned Googlebot because they want the racket money. Scraping edge is a pure wordplay to convince you their racket is actually a good thing!
- Joel_Mckay 3mo agoCloudflare is famous for IT service rug pulls to get paid back for high traffic loads. Let us not forget they are a business =3