Re:Microsoft CEO Testifies That Google’s Power in Search Is ...
by sokoloff on Monday October 02, 2023 @08:43PM
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Because Azure customers want Google to be able to index their sites.
Would you host your e-commerce or social media site on a cloud provider that blocked Googlebot?
It's not Microsoft giving Google a handout out of the goodness of their hearts; it's Azure customers demanding that functionality. (Those Azure customers also don't care about a random little search startup and probably don't want to pay any egress fees to serve traffic to it.)
Would you host your e-commerce or social media site on a cloud provider that blocked Googlebot?
It's not Microsoft giving Google a handout out of the goodness of their hearts; it's Azure customers demanding that functionality. (Those Azure customers also don't care about a random little search startup and probably don't want to pay any egress fees to serve traffic to it.)
AWS offers it: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/waf-bo...
Oracle as well: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/WAF/Bot/good_bot_...
Akamai as well: https://www.akamai.com/products/bot-manager