Microsoft and Cloudflare’s push to make websites “AI‑search friendly” is more than a product announcement — it’s an attempt to rewire how content is discovered, attributed, and monetized on the web by combining Microsoft’s NLWeb protocol with Cloudflare’s managed AutoRAG pipeline. The idea is...
Microsoft and Cloudflare have quietly handed website owners a practical toolset to turn ordinary pages into AI‑friendly, conversational endpoints — a move that could accelerate the shift from traditional, keyword‑based search toward answer engines and materially reshape how traffic, attribution...
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Cloudflare and Microsoft have launched a practical path for websites to become “AI-search friendly,” combining Microsoft’s open NLWeb protocol with Cloudflare’s AutoRAG retrieval engine so sites can answer plain‑language questions for both human visitors and AI agents via standard endpoints like...