I made my website charge AI agents a penny per page. Then I watched Claude pay it.
Summary
The article explains Google's AI contribution pilot that pays publishers when their content contributes to AI-generated answers. It documents the author's experiment with a penny-per-page model using the x402 protocol, paid by AI agents in testnet USDC, and the four-step flow from request to settlement. It discusses pay-per-use versus pay-per-crawl, wallet ecosystems, budgeting controls for agents, and implications for licensing and publisher monetization in AI-enabled browsing.