[drozycki]

I asked Google AI Mode “does Google ai mode make tens of site requests for a single prompt” and it showed “Looking at 69 sites” before giving a response about query fan-out.

Cloudflare has some large part of the web cached, IA takes too long to respond and couldn’t handle the load. Google/OpenAI and co could cache these pages but apparently don’t do it aggressively enough or at all

[ccgreg]

I don't think you're correct about Google. Caching webpages is bread-and-butter for search engines, that's how they show snippets.

[danudey]

They might cache it, but what if it changed in the last 30 seconds and now their information is out of date? Better make another request just in case.