Topic: database optimization

AI Agents Avalanche Coming: Google Warns Websites to Brace for Traffic Tsunami

Google's Gary Illyes has issued a stark warning: an impending flood of AI agents and automated crawlers threatens to congest the web. Speaking on the "Search Off the Record" podcast, Illyes stated, "everyone and my grandmother is launching a crawler," driven by explosive growth in AI tools for content, research, and data scraping.