Google’s moat is that websites aren’t blocking their crawler.
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The once unthinkable is now changing.
https://nypost.com/2026/07/22/business/reddit-news-outlets-w...
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/google-search-publishers-...
Cloudflare has just announced that it's about to start blocking Googlebot by default, because it's an AI crawler.
To which, I cannot say with enough emphasis: OUCH. This kills Google Search. All hail Cloudflare Search, the new center of the internet!