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Today
- Google Search Console Crawl Stats Missing A Day Of Data: September 15th
Search Engine Roundtable Industry analysis
The crawl stats report is missing a day of data again, this time, the missing data is from September 15th (it might be a day later for some of you on different time zones). That being said, this has…
- AI Mode Tags: FollowUp, Generate, Layout, Entity List and @prompt_leaks.ignore
Dejan AI Research
Explore the core AI mode tags used
Yesterday
- In five years will we still be talking about SEO rankings?
Voices of Search Industry analysis
SEO rankings may soon become invisible metrics behind AI-driven recommendations. Jason Lax, senior SEO and AI expert at SAP with nearly two decades in search, is leading the enterprise shift from tra…
This week
- Google Discover Tests Dive Deeper Feature
Google is testing a new feature in Google Discover named "Dive deeper." When you click on it, it does not take you to a publisher's article, instead, it takes you to an AI-generated short topic overv…
- “An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”: Court records show what Microsoft and OpenAI actually thought about AI training
Nieman Lab Industry analysis
Would you call large language models training on an internet’s worth of content “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”? Or perhaps you prefer the “largest theft of labor in human history…
- What is agentic SEO? 8 workflows run on a live site
Semrush Blog Industry analysis
Agentic SEO hands defined workflows to an AI that pulls its own data. See the free Claude setup we used.
- Semrush MCP use cases: 16 prompts for Claude or ChatGPT
Copy-paste Semrush MCP prompts for keyword, competitor, content, and reporting work, tested on a live site.
- Cloudflare's AI training block now spares Googlebot
Cloudflare‘s Disallow AI Training setting blocks AI training crawlers but not Googlebot. Bing won‘t honor it until early 2027.
- Daily Search Forum Recap: September 18, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
- MORE Google changes? This week's biggest SEO news in under 2 minutes
Semrush Industry analysis
Learn SEO news like how Google is potentially paying publishers for AI citations, Cloudfare changing how their users can block AI training, and how Google is elevating search profiles.
- Breaking: This Cloudflare Click Could Deindex Your Site
New videos every week with critical updates on SEO and AI visibility. Subscribe: https://social.semrush.com/3RtdGXK Cloudflare just changed what "Block" means for AI crawlers, and because of that you…
- Search News Buzz Video Recap: Unusual Google Search Ranking Volatility, Ad Tech Monopoly Remedies, AI Contribution Publisher Payouts & More
This week we covered the first week or so of Google's unusual ranking volatility only to see things spike up in a big way this week as well - something is up. Google's remedies are out for its ad tec…
- One thing every enterprise SEO team should start doing this year
Only 34% of AI model citations align with brand-recommended positioning today. Jason Lax, senior SEO and AI expert at SAP, brings nearly two decades of search experience now focused on evolving enter…
- Will ChatGPT Overtake Google? Kevin Indig and Will Critchlow Bet On the Next Era of Search
SearchPilot Industry analysis
I like making bets about the future. Not because I think I am especially good at predicting it, but because writing down exactly what you think will…
- Unusual Google Search Ranking Volatility, Ad Tech Monopoly Remedies, AI Contribution Payouts
This week we covered the first week or so of Google’s unusual ranking volatility only to see things spike up in a big way this week as well - something is up. Google’s remedies are out for its ad tec…
- Google May Be More Successful In Blocking Scrapers & Tracking Tools
Google may be more successful in blocking AI scrapers, search scrapers and third-party tracking tools since around September 13th or so. This coincides with the September 4th and September 12th rever…
- Google Search Bar Results Page Testing AI Mode Button
Google is now testing adding the AI Mode button to the search bar when you are inside the search results page. Google has the AI Mode button almost everywhere else, but now we are seeing it added to…
- Google Ads Commerce Audience Sharing Help Document
Google has posted a new help document in the Google Ads help area named About commerce audience sharing through Google Ads. It explains that "Commerce audience sharing allows commerce partners, such…
- Google Merchant Center API Now Supports Product Reviews
Google updated the upload a product reviews data source to Merchant Center help document to now say that you can do this via the Merchant Center API. Previously, the document said, "API isn't current…
- The role of guardrail metrics in SEO testing
Every rigorous SEO test needs a single primary metric. For us that's usually organic sessions to the tested pages , because it's high-volume enough t…
- Characterizing Web Search by Conversational LLM Agents: From Search Decisions and Strategies to Results and Responses
arXiv cs.IR Research
arXiv:2609.19244v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational LLM agents increasingly rely on Web search, yet the end-to-end lifecycle of agentic search remains poorly understood. We present the f…
- Do LLM Attribution Metrics Transfer? Auditing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Evaluation Across Datasets and Constructs
arXiv:2606.23915v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Practice often treats automatic metrics for attribution in LLM retrieval-augmented generation as interchangeable. We audit eight automatic sc…
- Are Finer Citations Always Better? Rethinking Granularity for Attributed Generation
arXiv:2604.01432v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Citation granularity -- whether to cite individual sentences, paragraphs, or documents -- is a critical design choice in attributed generation. Whi…
- There Is No “Accuracy” in AI Search Tracking – Only Precision
iPullRank Blog Industry analysis
I get some version of the same question every week now. A client has two AI visibility platforms running side by side. One says they show up in 41% of the prompts that matter to them. The other says…
- This Product Got Tons of Press. AI Ignored It
👉 See where your product shows up in ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and other LLMs with Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit — try FREE for 7 days: https://social.semrush.com/4xFWQ7C A massage table with press…
- Daily Search Forum Recap: September 17, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
- It's New 9/17: Google ad tech monopoly remedies, Google Search profiles & ChatGPT Sponsored Agent
Today we covered the Google ad tech monopoly remedies after being told it won’t be broken up. Google Search profiles get a new article design, fewer followers are required, easier login management an…
- One SEO metric teams rely on too much
Sessions and visits mislead teams as AI absorbs informational search intent. Jason Lax, senior SEO and AI expert at SAP with nearly two decades of search experience now leading AEO and GEO strategy,…
- What Ever Happened To Google Discover On Desktop
Last year, Google began to roll out Google Discover on the desktop interface of Google.com. But now, for the past several months, Discover on desktop is not been found. Google tested Discover on Desk…
- Google Local Knowledge Panel As An AI Overview
Google is turning the local knowledge panels, your Google Business Profile, into an AI Overview listing. At the top of the local listing it says "AI Overview" and then there is a "Show more" button t…
- Understanding AI Provider Recommendations in Local Service Markets
arXiv:2609.18341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When someone asks an AI assistant which doctor to see or which firm to trust with their savings, the answer is a referral. We audit AI provider recom…
- Legal LLM Hallucination Should Be Evaluated as Failure of Legal Warrant
arXiv:2609.17546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this position paper, we argue that legal LLMs' hallucinations should be evaluated as a failure of legal warrant rather than as factual inaccuracy or…
- "If I Had to Buy Just ONE: Galaxy S26 Ultra": Auditing AI-Generated Product Recommendations
arXiv:2609.18729v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Consumers increasingly use AI chatbots for advice on what to buy. With companies like OpenAI and Google monetising their AI through advertising, this…
- Google's Approach to Recursive Self-Improvement
Dream-RSI optimizes AI agent search strategies offline by replaying past discovery trees as exact simulators, reducing execution costs across discovery tasks.
- When scanners miss the attack: how Cloudflare Client-Side Security protects storefronts
Cloudflare — AI tag Industry analysis
A modern storefront can look healthy while malicious JavaScript quietly siphons revenue, hijacks clicks, or rewrites analytics. See how Cloudflare's machine learning models surface evasive client-sid…
- The Atlantic is getting more subscribers from Google traffic, even as referrals fall
Like many in the news industry, The Atlantic is seeing its referrals from Google drop. At the same time, CEO Nicholas Thompson said, the number of subscribers The Atlantic gets from Google traffic ha…
- AI Overviews Cut CTR by 23.1% in France
Ahrefs Blog Industry analysis
France got AI Overviews on July 22, 2026. We tracked 963 domains in GSC, 28 days before and 9 days after. The most exposed lost 23.1% of their CTR. Read more ›
- 3 new ways we're improving Search profiles for publishers
Google — The Keyword (Search) Platform update
Search profile updates help publishers better highlight their content and connect with their audiences.
- OpenAI Testing Sponsored Agents For ChatGPT Ads
OpenAI is testing a new ad format in ChatGPT named Sponsored Agents. Sponsored Agents "let people start a conversation with a business-sponsored agent after clicking an ad in ChatGPT," OpenAI wrote.
- Marketers Gave Up On Backlinks Too Soon
New videos every week with critical updates on SEO and AI visibility. Subscribe: https://social.semrush.com/4yH7kV3 A new Zippy survey of 131 SEO experts just ranked backlinks the second most importa…
- Daily Search Forum Recap: September 16, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google said Search Console position reporting may cha…
- Google Merchant Center AI Reports Live, Easier UCP & UCP Analytics
Google has announced a number of updates to Google Merchant Center including the AI performance insights generally available, it has simplified Universal Commerce Protocol integration, and Google hig…
- It's New 9/16: Google Ads benchmarking, multi-source conv., CrUX ad metrics, Gemini 3.8 & positions
Today we covered Google Ads updated its benchmark report to compare you to your competitors. Google Ad has a new multi-source conversion document. Google Chrome user experience report has added new a…
- Reimagining advertising with AI
OpenAI News Platform update
Explore new AI-powered advertising experiences from OpenAI, including Sponsored Agents, tools for marketers, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.
- Fanout V2: From Paraphrastic Collapse to Complementary Set
Google Research introduced R4T, an RL-trained diffusion retriever that optimizes fan-out query sets for diversity and speed, achieving up to 20x latency speedups.
- Which AI search platform are marketers paying the least attention to today?
Marketers routinely misjudge which AI platforms their actual audience uses. Jason Lax, senior SEO and AI expert at SAP with nearly two decades in search now leading AEO and GEO strategy, argues platf…
- Google Image Search Collections Save To Suggested By Al
Google Image Search lets you save images to collections and folders. Well, now Google will suggest new folders or collections using AI - it says "suggested by AI" with a Gemini icon over a folder.
- Google Search Product Listings Tests Linking Directly To Merchant Site
Google is now testing linking the product and shopping results within Google Search directly to the merchant or retailer website. This is instead of Google opening the side panel with more details ab…
- Google: Google Search Console AI Position Reporting Will Evolve Over Time
Google's John Mueller said that he expects the position and impression tracking for AI Mode, AI Overviews and Google Search to "evolve over time" as Google Search, AI Mode and AI Overviews "evolve to…
- 8 AI Marketing Trends I’ve Seen Firsthand in 2026 (Backed by Data)
The buyer’s journey looks different, because people now research and increasingly buy through AI tools instead of a page of blue links. The tools and processes we use to do marketing work have change…
- New asset: the AI Automation Work Router
Growth Memo Industry analysis
Build vs buy: Calculate the cost
- Diagnosing the Fact-Grounding Gap in Multi-Hop Question Answering
arXiv:2609.17043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-hop question answering requires combining information from multiple documents to answer complex questions. These systems have grown increasingl…
- Challenges of Auditing: Variability in Outputs of Large Language Models for Health
arXiv:2609.16590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: People increasingly use frontier AI models for health advice, but via different access modes (e.g., ChatGPT, ChatGPT Health, APIs) with varying setting…
- Benchmarking Factual Robustness of LLMs via Multi-conversation Persuasion
arXiv:2609.16777v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly serve as primary knowledge retrieval interfaces, their robustness against \textit{persuasion attacks}---at…
- EviScope: Paired Counterfactual Evidence Diagnostics for Faithful and Efficient Grounded Language Models
arXiv:2609.17081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grounded language-model systems are often evaluated by final answer accuracy, yet a correct answer can be unsupported, drawn from the wrong source, or…
- Building the AI platform for marketing
Profound Vendor
Profound has raised $180M to build the AI platform for marketing. CEO James Cadwallader writes why AI is creating more work for marketers, and how AI Marketer brings company context and agents togeth…
- Getting Started with Common Crawl Data on Hugging Face
Common Crawl Blog Data drop
We made parts of our crawl archive available experimentally on a Hugging Face Storage Bucket. This blog post explains how to use the data on Hugging Face, with tools and examples on which you can bui…
- Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026: Meet the community speakers
Google Search Central Platform update
It's happening! We are absolutely pumped that we're just about two weeks away from Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026! From September 30 to October 2, 2026, the Google Search Central team is h…
- Impact of Parametric Memory and Grounding on Ordinal Positioning of Brands in Generative Responses
Mathematical formulas for evaluating entity association, semantic embedding similarity, ordinal rank positioning, and generation performance in AI models.
- Google Search Live Now Powered By Gemini 3.8 Live
Google Search Live is now powered by Google's latest AI model, Gemini 3.8 Live. Search Live has been around for a couple years now, both in audio only format and then video format. Search Live was re…
- Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Google DeepMind Platform update
- Daily Search Forum Recap: September 15, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. I am seeing signs of a big update lurking with Google…
- It's New 9/15: Google volatility, AI Mode text ads, Google Ads bidding update data & ecosystem links
Today we covered the heated Google ranking volatility we saw this morning, it might be big. Google is testing text link ads in AI Mode. Google Ads August 17th bidding update finished on August 27th.…
- Have it both ways: stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training
Cloudflare is giving site owners a way to stay discoverable while disallowing AI training. New controls and an Accountable designation establish a shared model with Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
- How I Turn ONE Media Mention Into 6 Months of Brand Trust
👉 Find the right journalists, pitch them personally, and track every mention in one place with Semrush Digital PR tools — try FREE for 7 days: https://social.semrush.com/4gUVPTR In this video, Tamar…
- The biggest misconception marketers still have about AI search
76% of marketers still treat AI search as a separate content channel. Jason Lax, senior SEO and AI expert at SAP, argues this misconception is costing enterprise teams their competitive edge as he tr…
- Google AI Mode Tests Text Link Ads
Google is testing a text-based link format for ads within AI Mode. So the ads look like normal AI Mode responses, with normal looking text links with anchor text, but they are labeled as "Sponsored"…
- Google Ads PMax: Where Should People Go After Clicking Your Ads?
Google Ads added a new option within your Performance Max campaigns to select "Where should people go after clicking your ads?" The two available options for that question are (1) Your website and (2…
- The Wisdom of the Loudest: A Large-Scale Audit of Generative Search on Reddit
arXiv:2609.14575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online communities are valued not only for answers, but for the diversity of experiences and perspectives they contain. Generative search increasingly…
- Clean Scores, Buried Evidence, and Confident Wrong: A Receipt-Based Audit of Frontier Agentic QA
arXiv:2609.15319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier models score well on shallow document/chart reading tasks. In a controlled data-room audit, moving evidence into buried conditions reduced acc…
- The Attribution-Compression Frontier in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
arXiv:2609.14245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context compression reduces generator input in retrieval-augmented generation, but answer quality alone does not characterize citation attribution. We…
- Biomedical Reference Generation Remains Unreliable across 26 Large Language Models
arXiv:2609.14988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background. Large language models are increasingly used to help write biomedical text but may fabricate references to nonexistent work. How often large…
- CITECHOICE: A Causal Audit of How Document Presentation Redistributes Citation Credit in Agentic Search
arXiv:2609.15164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When several retrieved sources support the same claim, an answer engine cites some but not others. We call this decision citation allocation and introd…
- Can We Trust the Judges? Validation of Factuality Evaluation Methods via Answer Perturbation
arXiv:2609.15561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating the factual correctness of large language models (LLMs) is vital for many applications. But are our evaluation tools themselves trustworthy?…
- Verifiable by Construction: Claim-Level Evaluation of Verbatim Citation in Clinical Question Answering
arXiv:2609.15964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted for clinical question answering (QA). Current systems can attach citations to their answers, but…
- CiteShade: Citation Laundering in Multi-Source Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Its Counterfactual Defense
arXiv:2609.15660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) grounds a language model's answers on retrieved external knowledge and returns each answer with citations that i…
- Similar Accuracy, Unequal Evidence: Search APIs as Decision Surfaces for Tool-Using Agents
arXiv:2607.10198v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Search APIs expose ranked snippets, URLs, and metadata on which agents decide whether to answer, search again, or fetch pages. We evaluate these in…
- 【功能上线】搜索小工具功能上线公告
Baidu Search Resource Platform Platform update
尊敬的站长： 随着 AIGC 技术的发展，越来越多的站长和开发者开始通过构建丰富、可交互的应用，为用户提供更便捷的服务和体验。站长平台现已开放《 搜索小工具 》功能，支持站长直接提交可交互、可互动、可演示类小工具或轻应用，为搜索用户提供更快捷、更丰富的即时满足体验。 目前《搜索小工具》处在局部内测阶段，暂不准入信息查询类、医疗等敏感权威领域的应用；已提交的应用将进入平台审核流程，审核结果预计于近期
- Introducing Command Center
Command Center in Profound gives marketing leaders a single view of how their team uses marketing Agents, the hours that work returns, and how adoption compares to peers.
- EU got a different Google?! The biggest SEO news in under 90 seconds
Be honest — are AI answers killing SEO or just changing it? #SEO #AIOverviews #semrush
- Daily Search Forum Recap: September 14, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google is testing a way to pay publishers for using t…
- It's New 9/14: Google paying publishers for AI using content, weird Google update, Google Ads & GA
Today we covered how Google’s AI contribution report in Search Console is actually Google paying publishers for using its content in AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini. Google Search had an unconfirmed…
- Why SEO Rankings No Longer Drive Purchase Decisions
Rankings no longer predict whether buyers choose your brand. Jason Lax, senior SEO and AI expert at SAP, has spent nearly two decades building the company's global organic program and now leads its s…
- Google AI Mode More Query Expansion Interfaces
Google continues to test new query expansion methods in AI Mode, beyond standard follow-up questions. Now Google is testing questions with multi-selection tools, a query refinement option and those r…
- Google Search: It's Normal For Image Thumbnails To Be Slow To Update
Google's John Mueller said it is normal for Google Search to take a while to update image thumbnails in its search results with updated images from the website it pulls from. And it can take even lon…
- Google Al Contribution Pilot - Paying Publishers For Use Of Content In AI
Google is doing a small test where it is paying publishers for using their content within the Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and other AI search features. This is called the AI contribution pil…
- Google AI Overviews Practice Knowledge Quiz
Did you know that Google AI Overviews can also quiz you on various knowledge topics? Google announced this with AI Mode a few weeks ago, but it is also available in Google Search.
- Are you doing marketing… or building software?
AI Automation is highly effective when it’s targeted.
- The EU’s DMA Changes Lead to a Google Search All-Time Low 😳
Marketing O'Clock Industry analysis
This week on Marketing O’Clock: The changes from the European Union’s Digital Markets Act have resulted in what Google called “the largest reduction in quality of service” for Google Search in its 29…
- A Vocabulary For Expressing AI Usage Preferences
IETF AI Preferences (AIPREF) Regulation
New version available: draft-ietf-aipref-vocab-08.txt
- Agentic Search Readiness: What Businesses Need to Build Now | Bastian Grimm
What happens when search stops being something people use and becomes something AI agents use on their behalf? In this episode of The Search Session,…
- Automating SEO With ChatGPT + Python (Seb Atkinson) & Google Exploit Insights (Mark Williams-Cook) | Search with Candour
🌟 SearchNorwichXL - 24 September 2026: https://searchnorwich.org/ 🎟️Get your tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/searchnorwichxl-a-one-day-seo-…
- KoSimpleQA: A Korean Factuality Benchmark with an Analysis of Reasoning LLMs
arXiv:2510.18368v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present $\textbf{Korean SimpleQA (KoSimpleQA)}$, a benchmark for evaluating factuality in large language models (LLMs) with a focus on Korean cu…
- Search Central Live India 2026: Bengaluru, We're Coming (For Real This Time)
Remember back in March when we told our Indian community to "sit tight" while we figured out the APAC event calendar? Hopefully, you didn't take that too literally, because sitting tight for six mont…
Earlier
- How to Measure AI Search Visibility Impact and Business Success
In the eight episode of the AI Search Roadmap series hosted by SEO and AI Search specialist Aleyda Solis, she goes through the principles, top mistak…
- The prediction about search that turned out to be right
Google's shift toward "agentic everything" will redefine how search assistants act on users' behalf. Tasia Custode, founder and CEO of Brio Media, breaks down her post-Google I/O predictions on where…
- Dashboards Available In Google Analytics
Google Analytics is rolling out dashboards where you can create your own custom dashboards using Google Analytics data. Google explains that you can "create custom visualizations to quickly pull acti…
- Daily Search Forum Recap: September 11, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google's page indexing report is missing a chunk of d…
- Introducing Sheets Templates in Profound
Introducing Sheets Templates in Profound, a starting point for the most common ways teams put Sheets to work.
- Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Degrades EU Search Quality, Losing Faith In Your Site, AI Mode Match Types & Google Maps Photo Scams
This week we covered how Google said it launched its biggest reduction in search quality in Europe over the DMA laws. Google also posted a document on the regional differences with the Google Search…
- Google Degrades EU Search Quality, Losing Faith In Your Site, AI Mode Match Types & Google Maps Scam
This week we covered how Google said it launched its biggest reduction in search quality in Europe over the DMA laws. Google also posted a document on the regional differences with the Google Search…
- Google Shopping Ads X Days Left Attribute On Sponsored Ads
Google Ads is running a "very early experiment" to show a new attribute in sponsored results in Google Search. This attribute shows how many days remain in a sale or deal on Shopping Ads.
- Google Ads Video Campaign Group Beta
Google Ads is beta testing a new option during the campaign creation process for "Video Campaign Group." This option is for video or Demand Gen campaigns, and it features aggregated metrics and contr…
- What is zero-click marketing? How to execute and measure it
Zero-click marketing is a content strategy for delivering value without requiring clicks to other pages.
- Following the Preference, Missing the Optimum: Compliance Without Optimization in AI Housing Recommendation
arXiv:2609.10856v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are becoming the first point of contact for consumer search in domains where the stakes are material and the law is explicit. E…
- Agentic Share-of-Search: A Multi-Agent AI System for Competitive Decision-Making in LLM-Mediated E-Commerce
arXiv:2609.11190v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI shopping assistants increasingly redirect consumer discovery, creating an urgent need for tools that support seller-side competitive decision-maki…
- Introducing AI referrals
Peec.ai Vendor
See what AI assistants send you, from click to conversion
- How to do keyword research with Claude and Semrush
Learn how to use Claude and the Semrush MCP to find keyword ideas based on what your audience is saying.
- Google Search Deez Nuts AI Overview Easter Egg
If you conduct a blank search on Google Search, you will get an AI Overview that says "...nuts? ð¥" It seems like one of those easter eggs dropped by Google within its search results.
- Daily Search Forum Recap: September 10, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. John Mueller from Google said it is hard to map posit…
- How I Write A Pitch That ACTUALLY Lands Coverage
👉 Find the right journalists, pitch them personally, and track every mention in one place with Semrush Digital PR tools — try FREE for 7 days: https://social.semrush.com/3SUnMlE In this video, Tamar…
- It's New 9/10: Google ranking factors, ad measurements, Google Ads bait & switch & Google scams
Today we covered a new survey on the most important ranking factors for Google Search. Google has new advertising measurement updates. ChatGPT Ads seems to be disallowing AI service on its platform.…
- What if everything changes tomorrow? A Canadian company is using AI to help businesses navigate supply chain uncertainty
Microsoft Source — AI Platform update
The post What if everything changes tomorrow? A Canadian company is using AI to help businesses navigate supply chain uncertainty appeared first on Source .
- Apple: 2.5 Billion Siri Requests Every Day
Did you know that Apple Siri handles 2.5 billion requests every single day? Lilian Rincon, Apple's Vice President of Product Management / Product Marketing for Artificial Intelligence, said that yest…
- Google: The Old Position 1-10 Is Hard To Map For Site Owners
Google's John Mueller responded to questions about how impressions are counted for Generative AI in Google Search Console. Google has a document that explains that, and John just reiterated that. But…
- Bait & Switch: Google Ads Revoking Credits After Advertisers Spend Them
Google Ads has been offering new and existing customers credits to encourage them to spend on the advertising platform. But sometimes, Google Ads will revoke a credit, a credit that was already spent…
- Google Ads Beta Experiment: Budget Or Bidding Targets For Search Campaigns
Google Ads has a new beta variable to test within its experiments area named "Budget or bidding targets for Search campaigns." This test different budget, target CPA or target ROAS amounts to find th…
- Google Maps Phone Number in Photo Scam
Scammers are using the Google Maps contributor program to upload AI-generated photos with phone numbers, tricking users into calling the number in the photo instead of the number on the Google Busine…
- Internal links: ultimate guide + strategies
Internal links help users, search engines, and AI crawlers understand your site. Here‘s how to fix issues holding you back.
- GANDR: Claim Auditing for Verifiable Legal Answer Generation
arXiv:2609.10293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In high-stakes domains such as legal practice, a language-model answer is only useful to the extent that a reader can verify each claim against the s…
- Do LLMs Make More Mistakes If They Do Not Believe the Input Data?
arXiv:2609.09363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are prone to hallucinating or misinterpreting facts, which impairs their usability in retrieval-augmented generation or da…
- When Auditors Fabricate: Batch-Size Degradation and Confident Hallucination in LLM Detection of Planted Document Contamination
arXiv:2609.09696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly proposed as automated auditors of document quality, yet their reliability as detectors of planted errors is poor…
- In RAG We Trust? Measuring Robustness of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Under Document Poisoning
arXiv:2609.09243v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) grounds a language model in retrieved documents, which reduces hallucination but creates a new attack surface: i…
- YouTube influencers have an AI audience: What millions of citation events reveal about influencer sponsorships
Scrunch Vendor
We analyzed millions of citation events to see how sponsored YouTube videos impact AI search. The takeaway? Sponcon can keep working after viewers hit pause.
- Apple launches a new way to prove a photo was shot with an iPhone (not generated by AI)
At its annual iPhonepalooza today, Apple announced a new feature aimed at making it easier to know where an image came from or whether it’s been edited — the sort of provenance data that could be use…
- Do Answer Engines customize responses to different personas?
Answer Engines give different recommendations to different people, even when the underlying question stays the same. Our analysis of 71,147 responses reveals how income, age, gender, and occupation s…
- Built For Today, Built for Tomorrow: Future-proofed Website Migrations - Dave Cousin - brightonSEO
Recorded at brightonSEO April 2026. Includes advice on making sure that your site is meeting current technical AI SEO requirements but also is built…
- Get ready for the game with new football features in Search
Track live game feeds, explore detailed stats, and get custom fantasy recommendations directly in Search this season.
- We rebuilt SEOquake, Semrush’s free SEO Chrome extension
Semrush released a rebuilt version of SEOquake, the free Chrome extension for running quick page-level SEO checks without leaving your browser.
- How I Audit Any Page in Under 60 Seconds for FREE
👉 Download the free SEOquake Chrome extension and audit any page for FREE in seconds: https://social.semrush.com/4dr2xyC Basic SEO audits don’t need to take dozens of hours. You can get the gist of…
- Daily Search Forum Recap: September 9, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google said with SEO...
- It's New 9/9: Google Search regional differences, right answer for SEO, Google Ads local customer +
Today we covered how Google posted a new help document on the regional differences in Google Search. The people also ask feature is now almost 100% answered by Google AI Overviews. Google’s John Muel…
- How I Built a $1M+ SEO Agency With No Sales Team
He built a $1M+ SEO agency without a sales team, see the exact playbook Steve Toth used and what he's planning next. Additional Resources: ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uza9GX0E2mw ► https://www.…
- Google: Sometimes There Is No Absolute Right Answer For SEO
John Mueller has one of his Google lines again, he said in response to someone trying to pick the right answer for an SEO question - he said, "Sometimes there is no absolute right answer -- but you c…
- Google Merchant Center AI Performance: AI Search Intent, Terms & Attribution
The Google Merchant Center AI Performance Insights which launched in July and has begun expanding to more regions earlier this month has also gained new metrics. AI Search intent, AI Search terms and…
- Google Ads Local Customer Optimization & Store Sales In Data Manager
Google Ads is releasing two new features for multi-location retailers including Local Customer Optimization and Store Sales in Data Manager. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, wrote on X, "Ahead o…
- Almost 100% Of People Also Ask Results Are Answered By Google AI Overviews
Google is now answering nearly 100% of all people also asked questions with AI Overviews. 14 months ago, it was only at about 12% but now we are seeing thar nearly all People also ask sections are an…
- Google Ads Location Asset Requirements Update
Google has updated its location asset requirements for Google Ads. Google said it made these updates to "improve terminology, enhance readability, and include troubleshooting steps applicable to adve…
- GPT-6 Astra: The next generation in intelligence for work
Meet GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s most capable model for business, with advanced reasoning, computer use, and stronger writing and design judgment.
- 9 best AI search engines in 2026 [tested & reviewed]
We reviewed the best AI search engines so you can choose the right one for your needs.
- Who Anchors AI Overviews in Health? Baidu, Google, and the Geography of Authority
arXiv:2609.06798v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence is being rapidly incorporated into traditional search systems, yet scant work audits the information disparities across platfor…
- Measuring GEO Visibility: Prompt Corpora Define the Answer Market
arXiv:2609.06811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GEO (generative engine optimization) visibility scores aggregate source appearances, citations, or brand mentions in generated answers. The prompt corp…
- Evaluating Deep-Search Agents under Hierarchical Web Evidence Poisoning
arXiv:2609.06027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Search-augmented LLM agents are increasingly used for consumer decisions, making them vulnerable to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) poisoning. E…
- Attribution in Scientific Literature: New Benchmark and Methods
arXiv:2405.02228v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly generate citation-backed responses, yet citation hallucination remains a major challenge for trustw…
- Regional Differences In Google Search Experience Documentation
Google has posted a new help document explaining the regional differences in the Google Search experience. This document includes information about search experiences available in certain countries,…
- How I Automate SEO Cannibalization With Claude Code (FREE Prompt)
👉 Grab the FREE cannibalization audit build prompt from the video and run this on your own site: https://social.semrush.com/4yp0XFF On any site of decent size, a few posts end up competing for the s…
- Daily Search Forum Recap: September 8, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
- It's New 9/8: Google Search quality reduction, AI Overviews & AI Mode updates, Ads AI dashboard SOLD
Today we covered how Google said the EU DMA changes resulted in its largest quality reduction in Google Search ever. Google AI Overviews is testing thinner citation cards. Google AI Mode is testing p…
- AI search & manufacturing SEO: What the data shows [Study]
Semrush data on AI search in manufacturing. See which brands get mentioned, which get cited, and why citations don‘t drive traffic.
- Google Ads AI Dashboards Live For Some Advertisers
Some advertisers are starting to see the new AI dashboards within Google Ads. As a reminder, Google showed off these Gemini-powered Google Ads dashboards last May and then in August said they would r…
- Google AI Mode Tests Paginated Follow Up Responses With Skip Button
Google is testing a new form of responses in AI Mode that offers paginated follow-up questions and responses, with a skip button to skip them.
- Google Tests Thinner AI Overview Citations Panel
Google is testing a thinner design for the citations/link panel on the right side of the AI Overview. The citations panel is noticeably thinner and may be less noticeable to searchers, maybe leading…
- Google Business Profiles Email: Does This Look Right To You
Google is sending out Google Business Profiles notifications to business owners asking if the user-suggested edit or update is correct or not. The email says, "Does this look right to you?" and then…
- Growth Intelligence Brief #24
Amazon hits a record low, the IRS loses 60% as Google drops PDFs, AI Overviews open as full AI Mode answers, YouTube and Facebook bounce, Reddit and TikTok slide
- AI Influence With Confidence Threshold Manipulation
A study reveals that language model abstention is governed by a single internal confidence signal that outranks question difficulty and fact retrievability.
- Search Central Live is coming to Bogota and Ciudad de México
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- What Is Pagination in SEO?
Pagination is how content gets split across multiple pages — category pages, blog archives, search results, forum threads. For SEO it creates real problems: diluted link equity, crawling and indexing…
- Daily Search Forum Recap: September 7, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
- How Creators Are Adapting to Google's Search Changes
YouTube view-to-subscriber ratios are declining as AI search expands into video. Tasia Custode, Founder and CEO of Brio Media, has published content weekly since 2020, building sustained audience gro…
- It's New 9/7: Google Ads in AI Mode test, reverse crocodile shopping ads, stale jobs & losing faith
Today we covered Google has confirmed it has recently begun running a "small experiment" where it is serving regular pure Search campaigns with restrictive match types in AI Mode. Google Shopping Ads…
- How to Convince AI Search To Site Your Content
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- Topic clusters for SEO: what they are & how to create them
Topic clusters help you earn visibility in search engines and on AI search platforms. Follow these 5 steps to create them.
- Google Can Lose Faith In Sites Based On Low Value Programmatic SEO
Google's John Mueller went off again on programmatic SEO, this time saying that programmatic SEO can "often leads to a site that's either spam, borderline spam, or low quality," he wrote. These tacti…
- Google Search Booking Partner Prices Are Customized
Google's new DMA booking search widgets now carry a disclaimer to explain that the prices listed in that block are customized "based on factors such as your device type." It is unclear what other fac…
- Google Merchant Center Shows AI Prompts For Top Performance Insights
Google accidentally showed the prompts it uses for some of the insights reports within Google Merchant Center. Instead of providing an easy-to-digest summary of the top product that drove your perfor…
- Google Shopping Ads Have A Reverse Crocodile Effect With AI Overviews
Since Google added AI Overviews to Google Search, many of us have been experiencing what some call the crocodile effect, also known as the great decoupling. But according to new data, the opposite ma…
- Google AI Overviews Get A Character Counter Tool
Google will now give you an interactive widget within AI Overviews for when you are looking for a simple character counter website. Websites that offer character counting service features are in trou…
- Tackling Technical Debt, Query Drift, and Site Architecture for AI Search | Grant Simmons
Is your SEO agency practicing what it preaches to clients? In this episode of The Search Session, Gianluca Fiorelli talks with SEO consultant Grant S…
- AI chatbots talked 57.5% of AI users out of buying
We surveyed 2,338 US consumers: 65% of AI users have replaced some product-related Google searches with chatbots, and 4 in 10 dislike chatbot ads.
- The AI hours nobody on your marketing team is counting
AI adoption can turn marketers into unpaid (ineffective) software teams, while the real work absorbs the opportunity cost.
- August 2026 SEO and AI News: EU AI transparency law, Claude watermarks, Google’s anti-scraping URLs
Topics discussed: New EU transparency rules requiring clear labelling of AI-generated or AI-altered content across formats Microsoft Clarity is addin…
- Repeated Queries Exhaust an LLM's Brand Recommendations but Not Its Sources
arXiv:2609.05059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whether repeated identical buying questions exhaust a language model's brand recommendations depends on retrieval. Across 300 question-engine cells (50…
- Web Graph Embeddings: An Experimental Dataset Release
We are publishing an experimental dataset of graph embeddings built from the Common Crawl Web Graph: a 128-dimensional vector for each of 52.9 million web hosts, learned from hyperlinks alone, along…
- What AEO strategies are not working today?
Most AEO strategies fail without strong SEO fundamentals in place. Jenna Hannon, founder and CEO of Hatter and former early marketing hire at Uber Eats, has built an AI search agency helping brands e…
- Google Ads Tests Serving Search Ads With Restrictive Match Types In AI Mode
Google has confirmed it has recently begun running a "small experiment" where it is serving regular pure Search campaigns with restrictive match types in AI Mode. Ginny Marvin, Google's Ads Liaison,…
- Profound named in Forrester's Answer Engine Optimization Technologies Landscape, Q3 2026
Profound has been named in Forrester's Answer Engine Optimization Technologies Landscape, Q3 2026. Here's why it matters.
- How I Saved My Traffic After It Nosedived
Data-driven pages are one example of an asset that can actually get your website into AI citations and raise visibility. What are your go-to examples for this?
- Daily Search Forum Recap: September 4, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
- Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ad Tech Monopoly Wonât Be Broken Up, AI Mode Takes Over, Gemini Not Citing, AdSense Impression Changes & Bugs
This week, we covered how Google for the second time dodged being broken up, this time over its ad tech monopoly. Google AI Overviews are expanding by default...
- What's one marketing fundamental that AI will never replace?
Programmatic AI content strategies are already failing marketers. Jenna Hannon, founder and CEO of Hatter and former first marketing hire at Uber Eats, built one of the first agencies dedicated to AI…
- Google Ad Tech Won’t Be Broken Up, AI Mode Takes Over, Gemini Not Citing, AdSense Changes & Bugs
This week, we covered how Google for the second time dodged being broken up, this time over its ad tech monopoly. Google AI Overviews are expanding by default, making them more like AI Mode. Gemini 3…
- New Google Business Profiles Submit A Business Photo For Verification
Google Business Profiles seems to be adding a fifth way to verify your business, this new method is by submitting a photo of your business location. The other methods are phone or text, email, live v…
- Google Ads Collapsing Sitelinks That You Can Expand
Google Ads is testing another variation of expandable sitelinks, where sitelinks are collapsed by default and a number indicator shows how many more are available. You can then click to expand the si…
- ChatGPT Ads Manager Plugin, Audience Updates, Product Feeds & More
We got a number of updates coming from OpenAI about ChatGPT Ads and the ChatGPT Ads Manager, we also suspect that the shopping results coming from ChatGPT only come from those who submit product feed…
- The Dice Roll Method: A Standardized Protocol for Repeated-Query Auditing of Large Language Model Brand Recommendations
arXiv:2609.04047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Researchers increasingly use repeated identical prompts to audit stochastic variation in large language model (LLM) brand recommendations,…
- Enterprise GEO Prompts: Strategies for Scaling AI Search Visibility
Athena HQ Vendor
Enterprise GEO provides a practical way for large teams to organize buyer questions, measure answers across engines, find citation gaps, invest in changes that carry real business value, and ultimatel
- ChatGPT built its own search index
ChatGPT uses Google and Microsoft, but owns its own index
- What AI agents really think about your pricing
New research with Kyle Poyar (Founder & CEO of Growth Unhinged) to reveal how well AI agents understand pricing and how to influence them.
- ChatGPT 5.6 has transformed Shopping mode
Recorded as one of the largest changes to AI shopping, integrated feed retrieval has exploded by ~6.5x and overtaken web search retrieval for product recommendations in shopping mode after the releas…
- The Complete Guide to Using Claude for SEO (Skills, MCPs, Claude Code)
👉 Connect the Semrush MCP for Claude and pull live keyword, ranking, and backlink data into your workflows: https://social.semrush.com/4ibhdVZ If you already know SEO, the newer layer around it can…
- Daily Search Forum Recap: September 3, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google has dodged being broken up for a second time o…
- It's New 9/3: Google ad tech won’t be broken up, New Google AI Mode doesn’t link, news content poof
Today we covered that a judge ruled Google won’t be broken up over its ad tech monopoly ruling. Google AI Mode now uses Gemini 3.8 Flash but it doesn’t seem too link or citation friendly. Content see…
- The advantage of a traditional product marketing background?
Broad keyword targeting is quietly undermining AI search visibility. Jenna Hannon, founder and CEO of Hatter and former first marketing hire at Uber Eats, has built an AEO agency helping brands get d…
- Google AI Mode Gemini 3.8 Flash Not Link / Citation Friendly?
As you know, Google rolled out Gemini 3.8 Flash for subscribers to AI Mode and some have started to play with it. And the early feedback is that AI Mode running Gemini 3.8 Flash is not link or citati…
- Google Expands Merchant Center AI Performance Insights
In July, Google began to roll out AI performance reports within Google Merchant Center to United States based merchants. Google said the AI reports are now available to merchants within Australia, Ca…
- Google Ads New Phone Call & Offline Conversions Details
Google added some new nuggets to its Google Ads help documentation on about conversion measurement, specifically on phone call conversions and offline conversions.
- GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence
Introducing GPT-6 Astra, our most intelligent and aligned model yet, with state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science.
- Long-tail keywords: the ultimate guide
Use long-tail keywords to drive quality traffic to your site from search and AI. Here’s how.
- Counter-GEO-Bench: Evaluating Defenses Against Information-Distorting Generative Engine Optimization
arXiv:2609.02316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative engine optimization (GEO) enables content producers to increase the visibility of their web pages in generative search engines, but the same…
- How to Get Your Products Featured in AI Search Recommendations
Actually getting your products featured in AI search recommendations requires a repeatable process to sufficiently cover your grounds across product data, crawl access, third-party evidence, compari
- Trump administration says a New York Times win in OpenAI lawsuit would “threaten national security” and hurt small newsrooms
On Wednesday, the Trump administration threw its support behind OpenAI, backing the AI giant in its ongoing litigation with The New York Times. The Department of Justice voiced its support through a…
- How Kier Group’s Louisa Finlay is using Copilot to drive safety and productivity in the construction industry
The post How Kier Group’s Louisa Finlay is using Copilot to drive safety and productivity in the construction industry appeared first on Source .
- Google Search Using Gemini 3.8 Flash In AI Mode
Google's Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google Search, said on X, "Gemini 3.8 Flash has landed in Search." This comes only a couple of weeks after Google brought Gemini 3.7 Flash to AI Mode within Goo…
- Judge Rules Google Ad Tech Business Won't Be Broken Up
A federal judge in Virginia ruled against breaking up Google's ad tech business after Google was found to be a monopoly over its ad technology platforms. The judge ordered Google to end its practices…
- Daily Search Forum Recap: September 2, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
- It's New 9/2: Google Analytics outage, disavow links, AdSense impression change, LSA bug and more
Today we covered the current Google Analytics data bug that is freaking everyone out. Google’s John Mueller said the disavow link tool does have an effect. Google AdSense will change its impression m…
- This Google Update Just Demolished Rankings
New videos every week with critical updates on SEO and AI visibility. Subscribe: https://social.semrush.com/3RtdGXK Google's August spam update caused an 82% jump in pages falling out of the top 100,…
- One SEO habit marketers should stop doing
AI search visibility now hinges on fundamentals most brands abandoned years ago. Jenna Hannon, founder and CEO of Hatter and former first marketing hire at Uber Eats, built one of the first agencies…
- Google: The Disavow Tool Does Have Effects
Google's John Mueller said the Google disavow tool "does have effects," adding, "but it has its place & time." This was in response a complaint about a site dropping in the search results after addin…
- Google Tell Maps Starts To Roll Out
About a month ago, Google announced Tell Maps, a way for Google Maps contributors to use AI to tell Google Maps more about places. "You can suggest edits conversationally, right from Ask Maps and the…
- Google Analytics September 1 Data Missing
Google Analytics seems to have another bug, this time with data missing from the main charts. September 1, 2026 data is showing zero traffic to websites; I believe this is across every Google Analyti…
- How to prepare your site for AI agents
AI agents browse, compare, and recommend on behalf of users. Learn how to make your site crawlable, readable, trustworthy, and easy to cite in AI-driven decision workflows.
- Sources of Truth: A Multi-Platform, Multilingual Audit of Citations in AI Mental Health Information Queries
arXiv:2609.00319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online health information seeking is shifting from keyword search, where users consider a ranked list of links, to conversational systems that compos…
- From Prompt to Purchase: How AI Brand Recommendations Move Consumers on the Open Web
arXiv:2606.10907v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: When a conversational assistant recommends a brand to a user with no recent observed engagement, that user's same-name Google search rises $+…
- The latest AI news we announced in August 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from August 2026
- Google Working On Fixing Local Service Ads Bug
Google is working on fixing a bug with Local Service Ads where it seems Local Service Ads are being unlinked from the associated Google Business Profiles. There are also complaints of instability and…
- Introducing Context Manager in Profound
Generic AI has generic suggestion and produces generic work. Context Manager in Profound is the layer where your business knowledge lives, gets structured, and gets applied, so your AI Marketer can s…
- I Let Claude Audit My Entire Website Content (FREE Build Prompt)
Run an SEO audit of your website in seconds: https://social.semrush.com/4hOwhss A content audit can recover real traffic and leads in weeks without you having to publish a single new page. SEO/AEO Gr…
- Daily Search Forum Recap: September 1, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
- It's New 9/1: Google AI reports global, crusty old links and AI-generated store rating reviews
Today we covered the global rollout of the Google Search Console generative AI reports. Google said crusty old links that now go to shady sites won’t hurt you. Google added more human verification me…
- What's the biggest misconception about AEO today?
Most SEOs assume AI visibility requires an omnichannel content spread. Jenna Hannon, founder and CEO of Hatter, scaled Uber Eats as one of its first marketing hires and now runs an AI search agency a…
- Global: Google Search Console AI Performance Report & AI Control
For real this time, Google has released the Google Search Console generative AI performance reports and Search generative AI controls to everyone globally. This follows a slow rollout that began in t…
- Google Ads AI-Generated From The Store Rating Reviews Label
Google Ads has been testing AI-generated snippets and summaries in the sponsored results within Google Search for some time. But now Google is labeling a new section named "What customers love" as "A…
- Google Ads Performance Max Help Docs Updated
On Friday, Google pushed out a pretty big overhaul of the Performance Max documentation within the Google Ads support area. I've been waiting to compare the old and new documents, but the Wayback Mac…
- Google Ads AI Max Keyword Prioritization For Exact Match
Google Ads added a new paragraph to the AI Max help documentation for AI Max keyword prioritization." It explains that when "disabling the broad match campaign setting or moving to AI Max, broad keyw…
- Google Discover Not Loading Or Loading Slowly
Google Discover has been having issues for the past hour or so. Some are reporting that Discover won't load articles, some are reporting that Discover is loading but only after a long waiting period.…
- How did the 1955 plan for AI go? Surprisingly well!
This page compares the 1955 Dartmouth artificial intelligence proposal with the public record of AI capabilities and world models as of 2026.
- Where does AI get its information? And how to get cited
AI gets information from channels like training data, live online information, and licensing partnerships.
- Demand-Side Measurement for Generative Engine Optimization: Constructing and Validating a Million-Persona, Intent-Annotated Buyer Corpus
arXiv:2608.30023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity answer buyer questions directly and name a shortlist of brands inside the answer. Studying h…
- The Language of the Question Selects the Market: Query Language and Exit IP as Separable Factors in Commercial Recommendations from a Generative Search Interface
arXiv:2608.30052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a generative search interface answers a commercial question, which market's products it names is decided before the model reasons about the produc…
- CHASE: How Content Ecosystems Are Reshaped When Ranking Is the Only Target
arXiv:2608.30466v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is increasingly used to improve content visibility in LLM-based retrieval systems, yet its population-level effe…
- Answer Bubbles: Information Exposure in AI-Mediated Search
arXiv:2603.16138v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative search systems are increasingly replacing link-based retrieval with AI-generated summaries, yet little is known about how these systems…
- Redesigning and Auditing Deep Research Writing for Faithful Reports
arXiv:2608.28643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rubric-based evaluations of deep-research (DR) systems often obscure fine-grained factual failures in generated reports. We introduce CLAIMPROBE, a cla…
- Detecting and Repairing Hallucinations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
arXiv:2608.29307v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models increasingly answer questions by consulting retrieved documents rather than memory alone, a design now common in search assistants and…
- Lazy Grounding: Attacking Search Agents with Factual Evidence
arXiv:2608.30303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search agents reduce hallucination by grounding answers in retrieved web evidence. Yet reliance on retrieval also creates an attack surface: poisoned c…
- Faithfulness Is Not Free: Auditing Offline KV-Cache Quantization in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
arXiv:2608.30996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation systems can precompute and store key-value caches of retrieved documents to avoid re-encoding context at every query. Qu…
- Look It Up: Analysing Internal Web Search Capabilities of Modern LLMs
arXiv:2511.18931v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern large language models increasingly integrate internal web-based retrieval to provide real-time answers, yet it remains unclear how effective…
- Relevance as a Vulnerability: How Web Retrieval Degrades Safety Alignment in LLM Agents
arXiv:2605.29224v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI agents augment large language models with external tools such as web retrieval, enabling grounded and up-to-date responses. However, incorporati…
- Overreliance on AI in Information-seeking from Video Content
arXiv:2603.19843v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The ubiquity of multimedia content is reshaping online information spaces, particularly in social media environments. At the same time, searc…
- Google: We Don't Penalize For Old Outbound Links With Shady Content
Google's John Mueller was asked if Google would penalize a site for old outbound links to a site that once hosted quality content and now changed ownership and hosts shady content. John said Google w…
- Google European Search Dataset Licensing Program Details
Google has updated its Google European Search Dataset Licensing Program page with details on the program. Google has been designated as a "gatekeeper" under the DMA and is thus legally required to sh…
- Daily Search Forum Recap: August 31, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google Search is making AI Overviews fully expanded f…
- It's New 8/31: Google Search spam quality, AI Overviews morphing into AI Mode, site reputation abuse
Today we covered how Google said its search team is still at it with fighting spam, does the data show that. Google AI Overviews are now more like AI Mode results, which is not a great thing for us.…
- Microsoft Forcing Copilot Users To Login But Not For Copilot Search Answers
Microsoft is now forcing all users to log in before using Copilot, but this currently does not apply to Copilot Search answers within Bing Search. When you try to go directly to Copilot, even by clic…
- Google Confirms Search Spam Team Is Fighting & Well Resourced
Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering for Google Search, has confirmed that the Google Search team is still well-resourced in its fight against search spam. The spam team continues to update its spam algori…
- Google AI Mode With Inline Shopping Carousel Ads & Single Ad Unit
Google is now showing shopping ads in a carousel format inline within AI Mode results. Plus, Google is also showing a similar ad unit at the bottom of the AI Mode results. We got a lot of ads in AI M…
- We’ll /goto a World With Google Search’s /goto Tracking Parameters
This week on Marketing O’Clock: Google Search will be releasing its /goto parameters. Google says it’s rolling this out to protect its services and users from different forms of abuse. Plus, it seems…
- 18 SEO KPIs to measure organic & AI search performance
Relevant SEO KPIs to track include AI visibility, keyword rankings, organic traffic, and brand mentions.
- The Semantic Data Layer: Building a Brand AI Can Understand | Martha van Berkel and Mark van Berkel
Can AI really understand a brand - or is it still getting confused by conflicting information? In this episode of The Search Session, Gianluca Fiorel…
- What makes a good listicle?
Author bios, schema markup, word count: all noise . Only freshness predicted top-three rankings.
- Separating AEO Expertise From Search Marketing Hype
Only one-third of Google searches now click through to the open web. Jenna Hannon, founder and CEO of Hatter and former product marketing lead at Uber Eats, argues that AEO success depends on marketi…
- How to rank in ChatGPT search: 8 steps to improve visibility
Rank in ChatGPT search by making your content easy for AI systems to extract and by building off-site consensus.
- Why is SEO important? 11 reasons it still matters.
SEO improves your online visibility + complements answer engine optimization. Here’s why it matters in 2026.
- Your 'Gmail' can write code.
Gemini in Gmail drafted Python code to fine-tune a DeBERTa model for sentiment classification, complete with data loading, training loops, and evaluation.
- SearchNorwichXL Preview: SEO talks from Arnout Hellemans and Brendan Bennett
Jack Chambers-Ward continues the hype for SearchNorwichXL by highlighting talks from Arnout Hellemans and Brendan Bennett, who will be speaking at Se…
- Beyond the Vacuum: Combinatorial Strategy Selection for Competitor-Aware Generative Engine Optimization
arXiv:2608.27631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) has emerged as a novel paradigm for transforming content to increase visibility in Large Language Model (LLM) resp…
- CamoDocs: A Poisoning Attack Against Retrieval-Augmented Language Models Using Camouflaged Documents
arXiv:2608.28389v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) augments LLMs with external documents, but public or user-editable sources expose RAG systems to data poisoning:…
- Don’t measure AI search like it's 2016 (do this instead)
We surveyed 600-plus marketing and PR professionals about all things AI search. This is why AEO needs its own scorecard, not an SEO rubric.
- A Content Analysis of llms.txt Files from the July 2026 Crawl Archive
We analyzed the contents of 584,107 llms.txt files from the July 2026 crawl. Two thirds are produced by a plugin, half follow the structure the specification defines, and a few files even contain pro…
- Free AI Search Visibility Tracking: Methods & Tools for 2026
- Semantic Image Optimizer
An overview of an e-commerce image optimization method using Google's AI models and vector embeddings to iteratively generate and score product alt text.
- Grok Bot now works with X
xAI Platform update
- How to Grow Your Brand Authority for AI Search (GEO, AEO)
In the seventh episode of the AI Search Roadmap series hosted by SEO and AI Search specialist Aleyda Solis, she goes through the principles, top mist…
- Google AI Overviews Pushing Searchers Into AI Mode, Drops Show More Button
Google Search is testing pushing searchers into AI Mode from the AI Overview by default, without having to click the "Show more" button. The new AI Overview experience that Google is testing shows a…
- When SEO Best Practices Backfire
A session in partnership with Page 2 Podcast
- Introducing Adobe Experience Manager nodes in Profound Agents
Profound Agents can now List, Search, Get, Create, and Update Content Fragments directly in Adobe Experience Manager, closing the loop between an insight and a published update.
- Stop Underrating This Marketing Metric
If I had to pick one marketing metric that matters in 2026, it would be AI Share of Voice. Have you ever measured it?
- Why You Should Be Measuring AI Share of Voice Right Now
Measure your AI share of voice against your competitors with the Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit: https://social.semrush.com/46opVZQ Right now AI tools like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode are recommending…
- Daily Search Forum Recap: August 28, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. A first, Google won't enforce a spam policy within th…
- BotBase for Operators: A clearer path to joining Cloudflare's directory of bots and agents
Bot operators now have a home in the Cloudflare dashboard to manage submissions. This update adds submission status tracking, submission editing, and a behavior model so operators can accurately decl…
- How to track AI Overviews with Semrush
AI Overviews are growing and impacting SEO campaigns. Learn how to track AI Overviews with Semrush.
- Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google GoTo Parameter Fight, PDFs Go Missing In Google, SEO For AI Responses & Google and Microsoft Ads News
Another week...
- Google GoTo Parameter Fight, PDFs Go Missing, SEO For AI Response & Google/Microsoft Ads News
Another week, more volatility within the Google Search results. Google is also swapping out direct links to go-to URL redirect links in its search results to protect from abuse. Google seems to be sh…
- Google Ads Book Buttons Expand To Search & Performance Max
Google is expanding the book button through Reserve with Google partner integration to Google Ads Search and Performance Max campaigns. Previously, I believe, this was only available on Google Local…
- Google Announces Search Updates For Transparency, Actionable Updates Get Blog Posts
Google's John Mueller said Google "primarily" announces search updates to provide "transparency for site owners." He added that when Google publishes blog posts, updates policies, and help center doc…
- Google Preferred Sources, Tailor Your Feed & Search Profiles Are Different
Google has two, well, maybe three, features that are being confused as one. The preferred sources, the tailor your feed and also search profiles. All kind of customize what you see across Google Sear…
- Google Alcohol Advertising Policy Update On September 30
Google will be updating its alcohol advertising policy on September 30, 2026. The update "revises country-specific guidelines, expands allowed advertising locations, and provides clearer details on s…
- Google AI Mode Asking Searchers To Sign In
Google is testing asking searchers to sign in within the AI Mode response. Google shows a big Google super logo and a sign in button that says "Sign in to save your..."
- Why RAGs Hallucinate: Penalty-Aware Evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems with Knowledge-Gap Canaries
arXiv:2608.26385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Volume-based accuracy rewards retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for guessing: a system that answers everything outscores one that declines w…
- Update to the Site Reputation Policy
In 2024, we introduced our site reputation policy to stop a practice where third-party content is published on a trusted website just to exploit that site's good reputation to rank higher in Search.…
- New Claude skill: Commodity Content Audit
Score how replaceable your content is
- Google AI Mode Adds Flight Price Tracking, Mile Rates & Hotel Booking
Google is rolling out three new travel features within AI Mode in Google Search. These features include track flight prices, view points or miles rates, and book hotels directly within AI Mode, throu…
- 3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search
Book hotels and track airfares, plus view miles and rewards with AI Mode in Google Search.
- Daily Search Forum Recap: August 27, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
- It's New 8/26: Google GoTo Parameters, PDFs, AI Mode Links, Bing AI Overviews & Ad Channel Slider
Today we covered more Google search ranking volatility. Google seems to not be showing PDFs as often in the search results. Google added goto parameter redirects to the search result listings. Google…
- Analysis: Reddit Appears in 83.9% of Google’s Discussions and Forums Results
The most prominent domain was Reddit.com, which showed up in 87.8% of SERPs (83.9% worldwide), with an average of 1.29 link appearances. Along with Ahrefs’ data scientist Xibeijia Guan, I set out to…
- Advice for your ecommerce team
AI platforms increasingly reward customer-focused product content over technical specifications. Lucas Tieleman, co-founder and CEO of Optiversal and former Chief Product Officer at Bazaarvoice, has…
- Bing Tests Renaming Copilot Search Answer To AI Overviews
Microsoft is testing renaming the Copilot Search AI answer box at the top of the Bing Search results to AI Overviews. That is the name Google uses for its AI answer results in Google Search. Microsof…
- Google Ask Advisor Soon To Get Shared Memory Across Tools
Google posted on X that Ask Advisor, which is in Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Merchant Center and more Google tools, will soon "maintain shared memory across your Google marketing tools." Whe…
- Microsoft Advertising Search Term Landing Page Report For AI Max
Microsoft Advertising, with the release of AI Max globally, has rolled out a new Search term landing page reporting template. This report gives advertisers "full insights into all parts of AI Max's p…
- Google Ads Tests Swipeable Categories For Sponsored Results Again
Google is testing once again testing swipeable Google Ads sponsored results, where you can swipe a carousel of categories to potentially change the sponsored results listed below. We saw this for sho…
- OpenAI Pins Shopping To ChatGPT Sidebar
OpenAI has pinned the Shopping tab to the left sidebar on ChatGPT. Clicking on it takes you to a landing page and a dedicated search page focused on shopping.
- Google Ads New Troubleshoot Performance Fluctuations & Changes
Google Ads has released several new "Troubleshoot performance fluctuations and changes" across Google Ads, Performance Max, Search campaigns, Display, video, shopping, app, and more. At least I think…
- What is Nvidia up to buying Hugging Face and Groq?
Nvidia's $12.9B Hugging Face and $20B Groq acquisitions consolidate control over AI software and low-latency inference hardware amid supply chain constraints.
- Relax. Google won't penalize all AI generated content.
Google evaluates content based on substance and user behavior signals rather than penalizing pages simply because AI generation is detected.
- Data Citation for Large Language Models: A Challenge
arXiv:2608.25663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly mediate access to information, and a growing body of work asks whether they cite the sources behind their outputs. T…
- Tracing Target Answers in Poisoned Retrieval Corpora via Token Influence Attribution
arXiv:2606.25721v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are vulnerable to corpus poisoning attacks that manipulate model outputs through malicious retri…
- From Stochastic to Stable: Rank Stability and Structural Sufficiency in AI Visibility Measurement
arXiv:2607.10341v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI visibility measurement is comparative: practitioners want to know which domains generative search engines cite most often and whether obse…
- Google confirms deploying goto URL redirects to search results links
Search Engine Land Industry analysis
Google said it deploys technical measures against evolving forms of abuse and this is one of those.
- Tell Google What You Want From AI Mode
Robby Stein, Google's Vice President of Product at Google Search, asked on X, "If you could get one feature shipped right now in AI Mode, what would it be?" So now is your chance to reply on X with w…
- Google Ads API Developer Assistant gets major AI agent upgrade
Google Ads API Developer Assistant v4.0.0 brings specialized API dev, troubleshooting and reporting tools into AI workflows.
- Google Ads adds reporting for AI-generated product titles
Google’s new Product titles report shows advertisers which AI-generated product titles are being served and how they perform.
- Google adds link carousels for developing topics in AI Mode
This is after Google has already added these link carousels for AI Overviews in Google Search.
- Daily Search Forum Recap: August 26, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
- An SEO tactic marketers should stop doing
Volume-based keyword content is quietly undermining search performance. Lucas Tieleman, CEO and co-founder of Optiversal, has helped major enterprise retailers convert static product catalogs into ma…
- Google AI Mode Also Gains Link Carousels For Developing Topics
Back in June, Google released link carousels for top stories or developing topics to AI Overviews. I was happy. Now, Google is also releasing this for AI Mode queries, which adds carousels of web pag…
- Google Ads AI-Created Product Titles Report Beta
Google is beta testing a new Product title report within Google Ads. This is a special product title report for Al-created product titles. The report should show in your ads when they're more relevan…
- Google releases August 2026 spam update: What marketers need to know
Google‘s August 2026 spam update finished rolling out on August 21. Learn what changed, what didn‘t, and how to read your data.
- Reddit's citations in ChatGPT fall from 3.8% to 0.5%
Promptwatch says Reddit‘s share of ChatGPT citations fell 86% in four days. OpenAI says it hasn‘t changed how it picks sources.
- EviGraph: Towards Verifiable Evidence Construction for Information-Seeking Agents
arXiv:2608.24667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic Web search can retrieve relevant information without establishing that the retrieved content actually supports the claims used in an answer. Ex…
- Who is the Agent to Blame? Localizing Faithfulness and Citation Mistakes in Agentic Deep Research
arXiv:2608.24306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research (DR) systems produce long-form cited reports by orchestrating multiple agents that search and synthesize information from the web. Citati…
- Google is Aware of Temporary Link Schemes
Google's webspam team knows about rotating link schemes. John Mueller confirmed that a reconsideration request can cite a link found only in Google's cache, because the live page has already dropped…
- It's New 8/25: Google bugs galore, generative AI SEO, missing reviews, Microsoft Max CPC, and more
Today we covered Google completing the spam update. Google fixing the favicons and crawl stats bugs. Google Search Console sent out buggy new owner notification emails. Google’s John Mueller spoke mo…
- Daily Search Forum Recap: August 25, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
- The biggest misconception about AI search today
Two identical searches now return different results across AI platforms, upending ranking logic. Lucas Tieleman, co-founder and CEO of Optiversal and former Chief Product Officer at Bazaarvoice, help…
- Google To Charge For Missed & Subsequent Calls On LSAs
Google sent out emails to some advertisers notifying them that starting October 1st, Google Local Service Ads will charge for some missed and subsequent calls over the platform. "On October 01, 2026,…
- Google Shows AI Overviews Above Stock Charts For Stock Price Queries
Google seems to be showing AI Overviews at the top of the search results page when you specifically search for stock price queries - such as for [GOOG stock] or [MSFT stock] and so on. I was able to…
- Google Ads Tests Loading Sponsored Results Using Gemini With Animation
Google Ads is testing loading the sponsored results in the mobile search results interface with an animation. It shows that Gemini is also involved by saying, "Evaluating sponsored results" and has a…
- Google: There Is Nothing Special To Do For Generative AI Responses In Search
Google's John Mueller said on Bluesky that there is nothing special for one to do for generative AI responses within Google Search. He wrote, "from our POV there's nothing really special you need to…
- Google Copyable Emojis In AI Overviews
About a year ago, Google added the ability to copy emojis directly from the search results in an answer box. Now, Google is also showing copyable emojis to AI Overviews in the Google Search results.
- Our OpenAI fanout data shows no rise in site: operator use
Promptwatch recorded ChatGPT site:-scoped fanouts rising from 0.37% to 16.8% on 8 August 2026. Our capture of 196,692 OpenAI fanout queries shows 0.14% in August and no change on that date.
- Anti-AI sentiment attaches to visible AI: labels, generated media, chatbots and data centers
Experiments and survey data show growing public distrust of AI, with labels reducing content value and widespread opposition to local data centers.
- Same Agent, Different Answers: A Repeat-Aware Audit of Corpus-Induced Answer Churn in Retrieval-Augmented QA
arXiv:2608.22856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A retrieval-augmented QA system can return different answers after an index expansion even when its requested model identifier, prompt, retrieval polic…
- RAG Collapse: LLM Responses Collapse When Retrieved Documents Are Self-Authored
arXiv:2608.22118v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM responses are based on the internet (via training or RAG), and AI is now used to generate a significant amount of content online (Paredes et al.,…
- The Laws of Context Allocation: Causal Measurement and Closed-Loop Orchestration in Generative Search
arXiv:2608.23252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) shifts toward diverse portfolio generation, it is stymied by two critical bottlenecks: flawed measurement of…
- On the Role of Citations in Preference Data
arXiv:2608.21376v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many NLP tasks require systems to provide attribution in their outputs--i.e. citations to grounding sources. Attribution serves as a bulwark against mo…
- One Polluted Page Is Enough: Evaluating Web Content Pollution in LLM Recommenders
arXiv:2606.13610v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Search-augmented LLMs increasingly mediate everyday consumer recommendations by retrieving live web content. This creates a new risk: LLM recommend…
- Incumbent Advantage: Brand Bias and Cognitive Manipulation Dynamics in LLM Recommendation Systems
arXiv:2606.17443v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are becoming a major way for consumers to find products, but we do not yet understand how brands compete in this…
- Why share of voice in AI search is table stakes, not a strategy
Learn why share of voice is just one metric in AI search and how to track what matters across the full buyer journey.
- Host- and Domain-Level Web Graphs June, July, and August 2026
We are pleased to announce a new release of host-level and domain-level web graphs based on the crawls of June, July, and August 2026, consisting of 235.0 million nodes and 3.1 billion edges at the h…
- Has Google demoted listicles?
What 5.32 million search results reveal about Google's actual stance on "best of" content.
- Claude and Claude Code are distinct Answer Engines
An observational study of 24,135 responses and agent traffic found that Claude and Claude Code behave like distinct Answer Engines. They search at different rates, mention different brands, and visit…
- Daily Search Forum Recap: August 24, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google fixed two bugs, the favicon bug and the crawl…
- How AI Search Works
#ahrefs
- Why AEO Starts With Better SEO Fundamentals
AI Overviews now appear in 40% of Google searches, up from 6% in six months. Lucas Tieleman, co-founder of Optiversal, helps enterprise retailers turn static product catalogs into machine-readable co…
- Google Merchant Center Product Images Minimum Size Will Be 500x500 Pixels
Google sent out an email to Google Merchant Center advertisers and users that the minimum size for product images is going up to 500 x 500 pixels starting on January 31, 2027. Google recommends at le…
- Google Tests Pink Highlights In Featured Snippets
Typically, when Google highlights phrases in a featured snippet or AI Overview within Google Search, the highlighter color is blue. We've seen Google test other colors before, but here is a new one -…
- Google Search Console Sends New Owner Email Notifications - Bug?
Many of you may have woken up this morning to emails from Google Search Console notifying you of a new owner on your Search Console accounts. I received a couple, as did many of you. I was a bit alar…
- The Creative Side of B2B Marketing | Lee Odden
What makes B2B marketing truly creative in an age of AI search? On this episode of The Search Session, Gianluca Fiorelli talks with B2B marketing str…
- Evaluation-as-Search: Adaptive Discovery of Grounding Failures in Meeting Assistants
arXiv:2608.20392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-powered meeting assistants are deployed at scale, yet systematic evaluation of their grounding fidelity remains limited to static benchmarks that m…
- JuryProbe: An Empirical Consensus-Risk Diagnostic for Routing Reference-Free Factuality Judge Panels to Grounded Verification
arXiv:2608.20607v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Panels of inexpensive LLM judges increasingly make accept-or-escalate decisions. In factuality settings, accepting a claim because several reference-fr…
- When Failures Propagate: Causal Failure Attribution in Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation
arXiv:2608.20627v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) interleaves retrieval, reasoning, and answer generation across multiple hops. A retrieval error at hop 1 c…
- MedRAGChecker: Claim-Level Verification for Biomedical Retrieval-Augmented Generation
arXiv:2601.06519v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Biomedical retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can ground LLM answers in medical literature, yet long-form outputs often contain isolated unsuppor…
- August 2026 Crawl Archive Now Available
We are pleased to announce that the crawl archive for August 2026 is now available, containing 2.14 billion web pages or 360 TiB of uncompressed content.
- Technical Optimization for AI Search (GEO, AEO)
In the sixth episode of the AI Search Roadmap series hosted by SEO and AI Search specialist Aleyda Solis, she goes through the principles, top mistak…
- Ox Alpha is GLM
Prompt injection and gzip-NCD compression analysis reveal that OX Alpha, a mysterious LLM on OpenRouter, is GLM developed by Z.ai.
- Introducing the Dejan Chat Protocol
The DEJAN Chat Protocol is a response format that puts the answer in the first sentence and defers elaboration to the reader's explicit choice.
- Say it once: introducing Bot Preference SynC
Cloudflare's new Bot Preference Sync automatically aligns your robots.txt file with your AI bot policies for Search, Agent, and Training. Easily manage which bots access your content without maintain…
- Daily Search Forum Recap: August 21, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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