HOW ZERO-CLICK SEARCHES ARE CHOKING PUBLISHER REVENUE This chart captures a quiet but profound shift in the economics of the internet. Ten years ago, @Google crawled two pages for every one visitor it sent. Today, it takes fifteen. @OpenAI scrapes 1,500 pages for every visit, while @AnthropicAI hits 6,000 (!),... See more

But smaller companies don’t have access to those mountains of data. In their quest to stay ahead, they at times turn to a dubious yet common business practice in tech — wading into legal gray areas in order to develop their products. One example is Perplexity, a buzzy AI-powered “answer engine” that found itself in hot water this summer. Reports... See more

How will these companies monetize?  A fundamental premise behind the argument that ChatGPT will make Google obsolete is that an ad-based model doesn’t work in a chat-based world. Talia Goldberg noted this potential, saying, “What could be damaging [to Google] is a potential interface shift that moves the industry away from pay-per-click ads and

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