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Rob Taylor

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Former journo, now in cybersec. Wall St Journal alum, former Reuters Kabul chief and AAP head in SE Asia. Doing the Kessel Run in 11 parsecs
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Most publishers (still) aren’t blocking AI crawlers

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By Rob Taylor
| blog.bidswitch.com
If open web publishers want a market for crawl access, the first thing they need is control. AI crawlers are already extracting, summarizing, and consuming publisher content inside AI interfaces, and – from what we’re seeing at BidSwitch – they rarely send traffic back in return. At the same time, BidSwitch exchange data shows that only about 27% of publishers are blocking major AI crawlers today. That number says a lot.
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Is Kisawa Africa’s Most Beautiful Eco Escape?

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By Rob Taylor
| The Ethicalist
‘Three. Two. One. Now, remember to breathe’. And with that, I back-roll off the boat into the reefs of the Bazaruto Archipelago, in Mozambique, and find myself face to face with enormous iridescent triggerfish and sprawling brain corals with honeycomb moray eels peering out from burrows below. This is my first dive on this tropical island 14kms off the coast of east Africa but hopefully not my last.
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Commerce data, explained: What it is, why it matters, and what makes it useful

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By Rob Taylor
The problem with data-driven advertising isn’t the advertising. It’s the data. Spend a little time in a marketing strategy meeting and you’ll hear some version of the same sentence: “We need to be more data-driven”. Fair enough. Except a lot of what gets termed “commerce data” is actually closer to a transactional ledger: a log of what was bought, when it was bought, and where. For a lot of companies, that’s where the story ends.
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