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