AXIOS (Christine Wang) - People Inc. CEO accuses Google of abusing its market power with web crawling
CANNES, France — People Inc. CEO Neil Vogel accused Google of abusing its market power by using the same crawler for both search and AI. Why it matters: While some publishers want to block crawlers to protect their content from getting swept up by AI models, search traffic remains a key metric for advertising and affiliate revenue. What he's saying: "We can't actually block Google, because Google uses the same crawler for search as they do for AI, which is like an incredible abuse of market power," Vogel said. - "We would love to do something productive with them, but we're probably heading towards more confrontation than productivity with those guys," he said. - Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Catch up…