Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block AI Overviews
10 months ago
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- Cloudflare announced blocking AI bots by default and introduced a pay-per-crawl initiative.
- Google AI Overviews and Answer Boxes cannot be blocked without affecting search indexing.
- Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is confident Google will provide a way to block AI Overviews without impacting search indexing.
- Currently, there is no clean way to block content from AI Overviews without affecting Google Search rankings.
- Matthew Prince suggests legislative action could force Google to cooperate if necessary.
- Prince claims to have legislators ready to pass laws requiring Google to separate crawlers if needed.