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Publishers weigh blocking Google crawlers
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Search referral traffic is down 30% to 40% for some publishers as AI Overviews keep users on Google. Publishers threaten to block Google's crawlers, but People Inc. still gets 21% of traffic from Google search. Coordinated action risks antitrust scrutiny.
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