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HappySeeds Review: Essential Facts and a Pricing Warning

HappySeeds is an AI app builder that turns a chat thread into a deployed web application, with user accounts, a database, one-click hosting and Stripe payments already wired in. It launched at the end of May 2026, and it has since built one of the largest content operations of any tool its size: 620 URLs […]

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AI Is Eating Website Traffic, Websites Are Blocking AI: Reliable Information Is Getting Harder to Find

On 31 August 2026 Dana McKay and Damiano Spina of RMIT University argued in The Conversation that the web’s thirty-year deal between crawlers and websites has collapsed: AI crawlers take content to train models and write answers while sending almost no traffic back, reputable publishers respond by blocking them, and AI answers increasingly draw on the low-quality and AI-generated sites that do not block. This piece sets out their argument, the Pew, Wikipedia and Cloudflare data behind it, the three peer-reviewed studies that show the quality trap is real, Cloudflare’s 15 September default block, pay-per-use and licensing, and what readers and UK businesses should do now.

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