If anyone knows differently please let me know. But Search Engines today seem to have about 40% of the value they used to have. Does anyone know of one that actually allows you to search?
You are going to have to pay for service now.
Oh absolutely believe it. No different than a DDoS attack... In fact a friend is battling it right now... It is getting hammered so fast and so much the security will not let it stay up for safety reasons... It is useless because of the massive amount of hits all at once...
The bots will scream at each other while we watch cat videos. The internet will ultimately consume itself and we will be done with it. I’ll miss y’all, but I think it’s doing more harm than good.
A true AI, “hungry for any and all content” would quickly ferret out the Globull Climate Hoax.
Whatever they are labeling AI today, it is programmed, and the programmer(s) are human.
HIGHLY recommend: The Myth of Artificial Intelligence by someone on the ground floor, Erik J. Larson
“ Anyone who runs a website, though, knows there’s a huge, honking difference between the old-style crawlers and today’s AI crawlers. The new ones are site killers.”
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Kind of like incessant ZEEPER posters.
Fine. I hope AI likes clickbait.
Next up - Bot Blockers. “Nive website you got here; be a shame if anything happened to it.”
Gonna need a biologist to figure out all this.
AND they are making it miserable for us real people too.
I’d say that 20% of the sites I try to visit, (and increasing daily) for research, entertainment or commerce have some sort of ‘bot’ filter. that want me to ‘verify that I am human’, turn off my VPN, lower my ‘shields’, and let THEM run THEIR spybots on my computer.
Unless it is something really important, I just move on to the next site that offers what I’m looking for without the verification page.
I’d estimate that the ‘prove you are human’ website sentries have cost various online sellers a thousand dollars of my money not being spent with them, and who knows how many dollars of ad money the information / entertainment websites have lost because I didn’t click through all their nonsense.
And my tin-hated alter ego says this is just one giant step along the path to being required to have a Digital ID and a social credit score to use the internet at all, and not really that AI is costing website owners millions of dollars.
I don’t get what the bots are looking for. What “content”? What of value are they “raiding”?
I am the IT guy for some large websites. One gets over 120 million monthly pageviews. It gets hammered by AI-related bots, but we’ve got good caching, and know how to deal with bots and such.
AI web crawlers can be a problem for some sites, but not for those with quality hosting.