News sites blocking Google's AI crawler worldwide 2023, by country

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Amy Watson,
Apr 26, 2024
By the end of 2023, 60 percent of the top most used news websites in Germany were blocking Google's AI crawler, having been quick to act after the crawlers were launched. The figure was substantially lower in Spain and Poland, and in both cases, news publishers were slower to react, meaning that by the end of 2023 just seven percent of top news sites (print, broadcast, and digital-born) in each country were blocking Google's AI from crawling their content.

Share of top news websites blocking Google AI's crawler worldwide as of the end of 2023, by country

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February 2024

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Worldwide

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2023

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1,000 respondents

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based on analysis of robots.txt files from the 15 most used online news sites in each country

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Countries included in the study: United States, Germany, India, Norway, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Brazil, United Kingdom, and Denmark.

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