Cloudflare's Year in Review shows Googlebot crawled 200 times more pages than PerplexityBot. Global Internet traffic grew 19%. Googlebot crawled more than 200 times the share reached by PerplexityBot.
Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers exploding, publishers blocking bots, and many platforms sending little traffic back.
Google's AI crawler, Google-Extended, the crawler it uses for Gemini and other related AI services, does render itself and can render JavaScript, just like Googlebot, Google's main web search crawler.
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