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	by layer8 1 day ago
	Google’s moat is that websites aren’t blocking their crawler.

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The once unthinkable is now changing.

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!