AI Is Quietly Reversing 20 Years of Progress Toward an Open Internet

The End of the Crawlable Web : For most of the modern internet, there was an implicit contract between websites and search engines. Websites made their content accessible. Search engines indexed it. And in return, search engines sent users back to the original site. It wasn’t always perfect — news aggregators and social media links were persistent points of contention — but the incentives aligned…