New SPLX research exposes “AI-targeted cloaking,” a simple hack that poisons ChatGPT’s reality and fuels misinformation.

Robots.txt just turned 30 – cue the existential crisis! Like many hitting the big 3-0, it’s wondering if it’s still relevant in today’s world of AI and advanced search algorithms. Spoiler alert: It ...

The Internet is an ever-evolving virtual universe with over 1.1 billion websites. Do you think that Google can crawl every website in the world? Even with all the resources, money, and data centers ...

With that, Google expanded how Google products are affected by each crawler and gave robots.txt examples for each crawler. Google made a series of updates to its crawlers and user-triggered fetchers ...

Wikipedia has seen a decline in users this year due to artificial intelligence summaries in search engine results. The growing popularity of social media also contributes to the traffic decline, ...

Google's AI crawler, Google-Extended, the crawler it uses for Gemini and other related AI services, does render itself and can render JavaScript, just like Googlebot, Google's main web search crawler.

Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the next essential strategy for brands seeking visibility in an AI-driven world.

The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity is changing how people discover and search for information online. According to Statista, “[I]n 2024, around 15 million adults in the United ...

Image: The rack of a broken monitor or TV is the texture of a television screen, background for superimposing with the effect of grain noise, Александр Розов. Adobe Stock 1050902471 AI search tools ...