Web scraping startups out-earn the entire AI SEO/GEO tools sector by ~20x
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-10-29
Gagan Ghotra observes that web scraping and data providers launched in the last 12 months generate "way better" revenue — possibly 20x or more — than the entire AI SEO/GEO tooling sector, signaling that selling web data to AI companies beats optimizing sites for AI visibility.
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