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ChatGPT referrals to B2B sites rose 303% in a year, to 0.33% of traffic
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ChatGPT referrals to B2B sites rose 303% in a year, to 0.33% of traffic

A 303% rise sounds like a channel arriving. A 0.33% share says otherwise, and an unexplained May spike sits in the middle…

Aug 17, 20263 min read
ChatGPT picks the brands before it searches: named brands are 33x more likely to be recommended
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ChatGPT picks the brands before it searches: named brands are 33x more likely to be recommended

A single researcher inspected the search_queries JSON that ChatGPT emits, and found the model names brands before it fetches anything. Here is…

Aug 17, 20263 min read
Google starts showing AI generated illustrations inside AI Overviews
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Google starts showing AI generated illustrations inside AI Overviews

A month after Google announced it, image generation in AI Overviews is showing up in live results. A recipe publisher spotted it,…

Aug 16, 20263 min read
Stanley 1913 rebuilt its product content for AI search, and Similarweb shows traffic up 35.5% year on year
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Stanley 1913 rebuilt its product content for AI search, and Similarweb shows traffic up 35.5% year on year

Stanley 1913 restructured its product content for AI-driven search with product-level FAQs, care instructions, usage guides and consistent structured data. Similarweb recorded…

Aug 14, 20263 min read
OpenAI is burying the ChatGPT Sources button inside the three-dot More actions menu
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OpenAI is burying the ChatGPT Sources button inside the three-dot More actions menu

The Sources button has left the ChatGPT answer footer in some sessions. Reaching the citation panel now takes two clicks instead of…

Aug 14, 20263 min read
Perplexity blocks Time's markdown ads for AI agents and calls the format deceptive
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Perplexity blocks Time's markdown ads for AI agents and calls the format deceptive

Perplexity has blocked all markdown advertising on Time.com from influencing its agents and search results, calling the format deceptive and warning publishers…

Aug 13, 20263 min read
Research finds ChatGPT's own search index gives licensed publishers no advantage
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Research finds ChatGPT's own search index gives licensed publishers no advantage

Search Engine Journal reported on 12 August 2026 that Resoneo found no difference in how OpenAI's own index serves licensed publishers and…

Aug 12, 20263 min read
Nearly 300 French Newspapers File a Competition Complaint Over Google AI Overviews
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Nearly 300 French Newspapers File a Competition Complaint Over Google AI Overviews

APIG, the body representing nearly 300 French newspapers, filed a competition complaint with France's competition authority on 11 August 2026 over Google…

Aug 12, 20263 min read
Common Crawl published an AI visibility audit, and the worst blocks never reach robots.txt
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Common Crawl published an AI visibility audit, and the worst blocks never reach robots.txt

Common Crawl published an 18-page manual audit in June 2026 for checking whether a site is in the dataset most large language…

Aug 11, 20263 min read