I know right 🤣

Shame on you. Arseholer behaviour.

Generally, I block all ai bots in cloudflare mainly because I don’t see the value in the bandwidth suck resource drain vs the reward 🤷🏻‍♂️

We’ll see a greater push in our socials and the tv, Gooogle and Bing will be pushing it hard, because the opportunity benefits are potentially huge! They could get paid per sale, further marginalising free organic 😉

hink you’re right T, but some of the agentic experiences if presented right can look cool. I think that’s the draw for the engines, they can make their platform stickier through decent ui and giving users a seamless experience but, the devils in the detail and people do like diversity of UX too!

Control the browser and you get to decide a whole lot more of who sees what and how.

Of course it’s fraught with legal and competition rules and regs too; consumers won’t be too enamoured with niche providers not giving the value they expect - and what of the “open” web? Where do we go with that. ChatGPT are already pushing their own browser to users, because that’s a pinch point

Without trust, it’s back to Wild West stuff, I reckon we’ll see a rest of recommendations down the line. It’s genius for ad platforms as they stand to get a sales % of most transactions from trusted participants

Sure, old crawling methods will still surface products or content, but in large domains it’s pretty unrealistic to expect the data determinants to have freshest insights. Big brands will handle all this easily no doubt, but smaller players not so. I guess we’ll see more cms bolt ons to cater

The beauty of such simplicity is that it’s then very easy for a crawler or ai to cross compare and determine how cheap/available/relevant you might be for user related interrogations without the need to crawl lots of pages or ai specific training data - if the json file is realtime then better still

I’d not have thought of creating a simple product.json file for instance. Add a little link to it in the head of your homepage and there you have it. Simple signals around localities served, compliance info, product range and pricing, business registration details etc, verifiable via 3rd parties

It’s an interesting exercise to go down a route of interrogating your product with an ai. Do a little back and forth, read the pros and the cons and determine how valid or not they are.

Makes my head hurt thinking about all of ways it could go. I’m taken back to the days of loading feeds into google shopping. It’s essentially that only more slick and sophisticated- select * from database where product meets x and then, continually refined until user buys