
7/1/2026 · Matthew Conroy
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This post introduces initiatives to make AI search smarter by leveraging Cloudflare's network signals to identify fresh and high-quality content, thereby reducing unnecessary crawling by AI search engines. It also details the evolution of 'Pay Per Crawl' to 'Pay Per Use', with experiments involving Ceramic.ai and You.com, to ensure content creators are compensated when their work is used in AI-generated answers. This includes new reporting features for answer engine optimization (AEO).