Google Accused of Stealing Content by People CEO, Calling it a 'Bad Actor'
ByAinvest
Friday, Sep 12, 2025 3:04 pm ET1min read
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Google is accused of being a "bad actor" by People CEO Neil Vogel, who claims the company is stealing content from its websites to support its AI products. Vogel says Google uses the same bot to crawl websites for search engine indexing and AI features, and that his company's traffic from Google has dropped from 65% to the "high 20s" in three years. Vogel believes publishers need more leverage in the AI era and is blocking AI crawlers to force content deals.
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