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Google's longstanding deal with websites — sending traffic in exchange for indexing their content — appears to be breaking down as AI changes how people search. Reddit is reconsidering its AI training deal, and some publishers are weighing blocking Google's web crawler entirely, leaving the future of web traffic deeply uncertain.
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