As a result, GCP’s annual revenue run rate is now more than $50 billion, Pichai said. “AI is positively impacting every part of the business,” Pichai said.

Although Cloudflare singled out Google, other search engines that view AI search features as part of their search products also use the same bots for training as they do for search indexing.

Even Google, whose business model depends on monetizing search, is pushing deeper into AI, and industry data shows AI bots are flourishing. However, actions have a habit of inspiring reactions.

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Last month, the company started letting websites ask AI companies to pay to crawl their content, and began blocking AI crawlers by default. Update, August 5th: Added Perplexity’s response.

Google already has an AI licensing partnership with The Associated Press to offer real-time news updates with its Gemini model. It also has a $60 million licensing deal with Reddit.