Web-Search is coming to a screeching performance halt as Google shuts down their free search index, and traffic defenders like Cloudflare challenge AI at every gateway. What are our options?
Summary
Google is ending its free web search index for site-specific searches beyond 50 domains, while Cloudflare and Go-Daddy are blocking AI bots from scraping web data, potentially impacting local AI models that rely on internet access.
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