Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says Google's ratio of pages crawled per visitor sent to a publisher fell from 2:1 10 years ago to 18:1; for OpenAI, it's 1,500:1
Publishers face an existential threat in the AI era and need to take action to make sure they are fairly compensated for their content …
To protect their business models, publishers will block & sue these companies as freeloaders and switch to paywalls. The Open Web is dying and the Paywall Web will take its place.
The days of SEO sending traffic to websites are over (although weirdly stats are showing greater search engine delivery to Metacurity lately). Direct-to-reader delivery such as newsletters are the way to go. [embedded post]
1/2 “People aren't following the footnotes.” That's a good line from Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, referencing the ever-dwindling referral traffic from Google, OpenAI and Perplexity due to AI answers ( https://www.axios.com/... …