To add to this, some organizations just prefer using one provider for their cloud service. So if they build on Azure/Google Cloud/AWS, then everything needs to be on there. Cloudflare probably wants to offer the same here, where everything can be built on Cloudflare.
Not sure where the trust claim lands, but the first two are now exceedingly trivial with code agents. A little more work perhaps, but not hard at all. I’ve done this myself (not with those providers) with several search platforms.
I wonder if the three search engines get access to cloudflare protected sites without any captcha or bot interventions
Most likely not. Their Crawling service for example does not bypass the cloudflare protections either.
Why not use those providers directly? Does Cloudflare need to be in the middle of everything?
It would be difficult for them to provide intelligence to the US without being in the middle of everything.
Ease of integration and billing. Failover. Higher trust.
To add to this, some organizations just prefer using one provider for their cloud service. So if they build on Azure/Google Cloud/AWS, then everything needs to be on there. Cloudflare probably wants to offer the same here, where everything can be built on Cloudflare.
Not sure where the trust claim lands, but the first two are now exceedingly trivial with code agents. A little more work perhaps, but not hard at all. I’ve done this myself (not with those providers) with several search platforms.