Google's AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-15/google-s-search-dominance-leaves-sites-little-choice-on-ai-scraping

by thm • 2 years ago

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hightrix• 2 years ago

This site is paywalled.

But from the headline, this sure seems like Google using their monopoly to adversely affect consumers and the market as a whole.

giuliomagnifico• 2 years ago

tl;dr

Google uses a separate crawler for some AI products, such as its chatbot Gemini. But its main crawler, the Googlebot, serves both AI Overviews and Google search. A company spokesperson said Googlebot governs AI Overviews because AI and the company’s search engine are deeply entwined. The spokesperson added that its search results page shows information in a variety of formats, including images and graphics. Google also said publishers can block specific pages or parts of pages from appearing in AI Overviews in search results — but that would also likely bar those snippets from appearing across all of Google’s other search features, too, including web link listings.

Here should be without the paywall: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/technology/2024/08/15/g...

CKMo• 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure this gives credence to the monopoly argument

Google's AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die

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