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Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block AI Overviews

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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claims his company will persuade Google to allow blocking of AI Overviews and Answer Boxes without impacting search indexing. This comes after Cloudflare's announcement to block AI bots by default and introduce pay-per-crawl compensation. Prince suggests potential legislative action if Google doesn't cooperate, though he's hopeful it won't be necessary.

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