“So if you look at just traffic from Google, 10 years ago, for every 2 pages, Google crawled, they send you 1 visitor. 6 months ago, that was up to 6:1. The call rate hadn’t changed. But what’s changed is now 75% of queries to Google, Google Answers on Google without sending you back to the original source. But even in the last 6 months, the rate has increased even further where now it’s up to 15:1, 15 crawls for every one visitor. And if you look at OpenAI, which is 25:1, Anthropic, which is 6,000:1. It’s putting a lot of pressure on the media companies that are there that are making money through either subscriptions or ads on their pages.” Cloudflare CEO.
