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geoBing Webmaster Tools adds Topics Portfolio beta: AI citation topics and opportunity queries
Bing's AI Performance report now shows topic size, crowding and opportunity queries for AI answers. The numbers are approximate and the feature…
geoChatGPT answers 6 in 7 prompts without searching and shifts citations to primary sources, Ahrefs finds
Ahrefs' study of 66.6 million free ChatGPT responses and 15 million fan-out queries shows the model rarely searches, often runs site: searches…
geoAnthropic bans using Claude to seed AI answer sources with fake sites
Anthropic's 2026 Usage Policy update adds a deceptive campaigns section that names search engines and AI answers. What it bans, the 70-site…
geoCloudflare's Pay Per Use enters beta: AI companies pay publishers per use, not per crawl
Cloudflare moved Pay Per Use into beta on 30 September 2026: AI companies offer a price for a defined use of content,…
geoJudge Mehta Dismisses Penske Media and Chegg Antitrust Suits Over Google AI Overviews
Judge Amit Mehta dismissed the Penske Media and Chegg antitrust complaints over Google AI Overviews, finding no plausible agreement or market, while…
geoPublishers detail concrete life after the search-traffic collapse at Digiday's Publishing Summit
At Digiday's September 2026 Publishing Summit, publishers shared concrete post-search numbers, including Future Publishing's 30-plus renewing GEO clients, the clearest sign yet…
geoMicrosoft Clarity lets site owners edit the Brand Terms behind its branded AI query split
Microsoft Clarity now lets site owners add, edit and remove the Brand Terms that decide whether an AI query counts as branded.…
geoBaidu adds AI citation reporting to its webmaster tools: what the new AI Traffic Analysis report measures
Baidu confirmed on 16 September 2026 a new AI Traffic Analysis report counting AI citations, impressions, clicks and a citation-based AI CTR.…
geoYouTube 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…