What’s the benefit for websites to allow OpenAI/Microsoft to scrape and republish all their content without sending traffic back to them? It seems like these type of “search engines” will just get blocked in the short term.
Longer term, it seems what will be left is “AI Optimized” content, which turns LLM search engines into shills for advertisers. Or these new search engines will have to compensate content producers somehow.
This is probably powered by Bing indexes. I doubt many would intentionally exclude themselves from Bing. I suspect Gemini is the same, using Google's index.
Longer term, it seems what will be left is “AI Optimized” content, which turns LLM search engines into shills for advertisers. Or these new search engines will have to compensate content producers somehow.