Harvey Finkelstein, the president of Shopify, was recently interviewed about their open source Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), which enables agentic AI shopping. Co-developed with Google, he explains how UCP enables brands to be discovered by customers based on personalized recommendations, as opposed to advertising and classic search paradigms that are less personalized. Finkelstein said that […]
More Sites Blocking LLM Crawling – Could That Backfire On GEO?
Hostinger released an analysis showing that businesses are blocking AI systems used to train large language models while allowing AI assistants to continue to read and summarize more websites. The company examined 66.7 billion bot interactions across 5 million websites and found that AI assistant crawlers used by tools such as ChatGPT now reach more […]