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AI-generated websites make money by 'backlinking' or gaming Discover for ad revenue.
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Urgent bid lodged with UK regulator to stop Google AI Overviews ‘stealing journalism’
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UK and US publishers back move to block AI scrapers by default
Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare is behind the new technology.
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Google’s site reputation abuse policy: the wrong solution to a real problem
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