Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.
230d ago
Technology
Ars Technica

Cloudflare is urging Google to distinguish between AI Overviews crawling and traditional search indexing bots. Cloudflare argues that separating these bots would provide website owners with more control over how their content is used for AI training and summaries. Google is unlikely to comply with this request, as it would require significant changes to its infrastructure and potentially hinder its AI development efforts. The dispute underscores the growing tension between content creators and AI companies regarding data usage and ownership.