As its traffic continues to climb, alternative search engine DuckDuckGo is leaning into anti-AI sentiment with the launch of new browser extensions that allow users to set its no-AI search experience, noai.duckduckgo.com , as their default search engine. …
… AI crawlers, search engines, and assistants made up roughly a quarter of all bot requests during that period. “Non-human traffic will exceed human traffic sometime in the first half of 2027,” said Lai Yi Ohlsen , senior product manager at Cloudflare, to TechCrunch. …
… However, if Digg does end up gaining steam, it could serve as a useful source of website traffic to publishers whose businesses have been decimated by declining clicks thanks to Google’s changing algorithms and the impact of AI Overviews , the AI-generated summaries Google displays atop search resu… …
… This shift means that “searching the web” will increasingly be performed by AI agents rather than humans. …