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Not really, business websites are generally in the business or serving user-agents like browsers that then convey the information to users.

If I tell Claude to go search the web and find me a bunch of links to the websites of restaurants in my neighborhood because I want to try something new do you think the restaurant wants to be on that list?

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I would say that the restaurant would be wasting its time and resources by catering their website to hypothetical customers who are choosing to use inferior and overly engineered methods to find information about their physical surroundings out of technological fetishism. But that's just me.

Yes I think it's just you.

These AI tools are taking over as the main search/discovery vector for websites. Engaging with it is just basic SEO. This isn't really that complicated.

For content or media sites it's a different story. But most websites direct people to commercial transactions, and that's the group I'm referring to.

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