Online publishers face a dilemma: Allow AI scraping from Google or lose search visibility

As the US government weighs its options following a landmark "monopolist" ruling against Google last week, online publications increasingly face a bleak future. (And this time, it's not just because of severely diminished ad revenue.) Bloomberg reports that their choice now boils down to allowing Google to use their published content to produce inline AI-generated search "answers" or losing visibility in the company's search engine. The crux of the problem lies in the Googlebot, the crawler that...