Edition No. 45 · Thu 6 Aug 2026 · Story 8 of 16

"People Inc. CEO: We're not turning off Google crawlers yet"

Digiday

People Inc.'s CEO told investors Google Search is down to 21% of its traffic from nearly two-thirds, while declining for now to block the crawlers.

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