Search engine bots crawled so AI bots could run

145 · Stack Overflow · Jan. 6, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
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In this blog post, Ryan interviews Robert Lester, an Akamai data scientist, to discuss the impact of AI bots on internet traffic, highlighting their differences from traditional search engine optimization bots and the potential risks of trying to block them from websites.
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