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Pay Per Crawl signals a new web business model – charging AI bots for access and giving content creators a new path to profit.

Cloudflare urges Google to let publishers block AI Overviews without affecting search rankings or SEO performance.

But the CEO of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince, believes Google will give them a way to block AI Overviews and Answer boxes without being forced to block class search indexing.

Cloudflare introduces default blocking of AI data scrapers The tech company’s customers can automatically block A.I. companies from exploiting their websites, it said, as it moves to protect ...

Cloudflare is introducing a way to charge AI web scrapers Content creators can protect their sites from unwanted scrapers Specific crawlers can be granted free access, charged, or blocked Online ...

Publishers and other providers of creative content now have the option to block AI crawlers from accessing and scraping their intellectual property with new tools from Cloudflare.

Cloudflare says that it has partnered with several AI firms willing to participate in what should be a mutually beneficial arrangement – assuming they agree to pay the prices set by publishers.

Cloudflare reshapes the AI landscape by blocking Big Tech AI bot crawlers by default, allowing websites to demand payment for content access.

Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.

Now millions more will have the option of keeping bot blocking as their default. Cloudflare also says it can identify even “shadow” scrapers that are not publicized by AI companies.

Cloudflare’s new pay per crawl system, which also applies to site owners, is currently in a private beta.