Web Traffic Declines and New AI Crawler Restrictions Shake the Internet
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Major US news websites have experienced significant traffic declines, up to 40%, since Google introduced its AI search features like AI Overviews and AI Mode, which provide direct answers and reduce the need for users to visit external sites, raising concerns about the impact on journalism and publisher revenue.
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- Top news sites suffer drastic drop in web traffic since Google added AI search — with some plunging 40% New York Post
- Introducing Pay per crawl- enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access The Cloudflare Blog
- Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of A.I. Scrapers By Default The New York Times
- Millions of websites to get 'game-changing' AI bot blocker BBC
- Cloudflare will now, by default, block AI bots from crawling its clients’ websites MIT Technology Review
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