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YouTube led AI-answer citations across 8 engines in August 2026; one tracker saw its citations fall 43% within a month
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YouTube led AI-answer citations across 8 engines in August 2026; one tracker saw its citations fall 43% within a month

Several datasets reported by Digiday show YouTube overtaking Reddit as the source AI answer engines cite most. What the figures show, their…

Sep 24, 20263 min read
Lighthouse 13.5 adds an audit for AI agent resource discovery (ARD)
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Lighthouse 13.5 adds an audit for AI agent resource discovery (ARD)

Google's Lighthouse now checks for an AI agent discovery catalog. What the audit looks for, the file-name mismatch with the latest spec,…

Sep 24, 20263 min read
Field experiment: Google AI Mode cut clicks to websites by 18.8 points
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Field experiment: Google AI Mode cut clicks to websites by 18.8 points

A randomised field experiment by Penn and Northeastern researchers measured how AI Mode and AI Overviews change clicks, trust and search habits.…

Sep 24, 20263 min read
Microsoft's own data: AI chat cut publisher clicks up to 93%, and links don't fix it
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Microsoft's own data: AI chat cut publisher clicks up to 93%, and links don't fix it

A court brief shows Microsoft's own data put the click-through reduction between Bing Chat and Bing web search at 87 to 93…

Sep 21, 20263 min read
How the AI content payment models compare: Google, Cloudflare and Microsoft
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How the AI content payment models compare: Google, Cloudflare and Microsoft

Google, Cloudflare and Microsoft are each testing ways to pay websites for AI access to their content, and the three models differ…

Sep 19, 20263 min read
Google's Mueller: Search Console AI position reporting will keep changing, so treat it as a moving target
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Google's Mueller: Search Console AI position reporting will keep changing, so treat it as a moving target

John Mueller says Search Console position and impression tracking for AI Mode, AI Overviews and Search will evolve over time and confirmed…

Sep 17, 20263 min read
How to track AI Overviews visibility, and what Search Console will not tell you
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How to track AI Overviews visibility, and what Search Console will not tell you

Tracking AI Overviews visibility needs a fixed query panel, a record of citations versus mentions, and Search Console read carefully. Here is…

Sep 16, 20263 min read
Cloudflare's Disallow AI Training keeps Googlebot crawling while blocking model training
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Cloudflare's Disallow AI Training keeps Googlebot crawling while blocking model training

Cloudflare introduced a Disallow AI Training setting on 15 September 2026 that publishes a no-training preference in robots.txt while leaving Googlebot, Applebot…

Sep 16, 20263 min read
What are Google AI Overviews? How they choose sources and what site owners can do
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What are Google AI Overviews? How they choose sources and what site owners can do

How AI Overviews work, how they affect clicks, where to find their data in Search Console, what the opt-out controls really do,…

Sep 15, 20263 min read