You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore

Web and Google He had a deal once: Google collects data and indexes web pages and in return sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn’t perfect, and it certainly made Google more money than it made from the websites, but it worked for a long time. Now, however, Looks like the deal is dead. And the web is forced to reckon with what happens when Google traffic dries up.

on This episode of vertcastDavid and Nilay talk about this week’s Google Zero news, including Reddit’s interest in it Exiting the AI ​​training dealand publishers are considering blocking Google from crawling their sites altogether. (Nilay also has some success with the whole “Google Zero” term, but only for a short time.) Even Google search works Feeling the crisis of artificial intelligenceand it’s no one’s guess what will happen next.