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Why would you voluntarily pretend to be a AI bot, when those have already a much higher chance of being blocked? Seems holly unproductive. Best hypothesis I ca
by Tharre 2mo ago
Why would you voluntarily pretend to be a AI bot, when those have already a much higher chance of being blocked? Seems holly unproductive.
Best hypothesis I can come up with is to somehow make the AI companies look bad, but they seem to be doing an excellent job at that themselves already by scraping everyone hundreds of times per hour over and over.
- xgulfie 2mo agoMost websites don't have an incentive to block AI bots to their main sites. Think businesses, government and community websites, nonprofits, etc.
- esskay 2mo agoBecause businesses dont want them blocked, that would be a very stupid thing for most of them to do given its becoming a vital traffic source now that people are using chatbots instead of google.
- Gigachad 2mo agoFrom what I have seen at work, everyone is using chat bots but no one is visiting websites through them. We still get almost all traffic through social media and google search.
- cullenking 2mo agothe numbers are much smaller than traditional search but they are trending up, and they convert at almost 2x the rate of organic search inbounds. sure you can play catchup later, but the trend is quite clear. if there's one thing the last two years have taught me, my prior heuristics on now vs future don't work in 2026.
- inigyou 2mo agoYeah. Do you want the bot to buy the product from your website or your competitors?
- mcmcmc 2mo agoHow many from a direct link without a tracker? That’s usually how I use it for search, get the answer, find the sources and copy the link to a new tab
- red-iron-pine 2mo agoGooglebot and other web scrapers are how you get visible, how you get adwords, ways to boost your traffic, etc. bots hitting your site aren't problems per se
- naykip 2mo ago[flagged]