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Oct 16, 2026Yeşilyurt rebuilds his site so only AI agents can read it
Oct 16, 2026Graphite asks converting users which prompt they typed into which LLM
Oct 16, 2026Posting new URLs to Reddit got them indexed in six minutes, Bobbink says
Oct 15, 2026ChatGPT now flags unverified vendor claims six times more often after GPT-6 switch
Oct 15, 2026Outbound links in AI answers rarely match the sources they cite, Konitzny finds
Oct 15, 2026ChatGPT replaces citations with direct homepage links in 42% of answers
Oct 15, 2026ChatGPT stopped tagging outbound links on Oct 9, inflating GA4 Direct
Oct 14, 2026GPT-6 reverses GPT-5.6 search patterns, Konitzny finds in 2.2M responses
Oct 14, 2026Google is poisoning 8% of rank tracker SERPs, Nozzle finds
Oct 12, 2026Fake-stats site pulled 72K ChatGPT-User requests in 30 days
Oct 12, 2026Anthropic's new usage policy bans using Claude to seed AI answers with hidden-origin content
Oct 12, 2026ChatGPT's GPT-6 system prompt tells the model to rank sources by claim fit, freshness and authority
Oct 9, 2026Google AI Overviews embed external links in 26% of answers, up from near zero in August
Oct 8, 2026Google tests AI Overview links that open AI Mode instead of websites
Oct 8, 2026A fake stats site pulled thousands of LLM citations for seven months
Oct 6, 2026ChatGPT routes web searches through four separate pipelines, Konitzny says
Oct 5, 2026Google expands AI Overviews on branded queries, inflating GSC impressions
Sep 30, 2026Google patent describes fan-out queries built from embeddings, not text
Sep 29, 2026ChatGPT reads YouTube descriptions, not transcripts, when it retrieves a video
Sep 29, 2026Google is indexing 12,000 spam pages built on public Gemini Notebooks
Sep 28, 2026YouTube loses 91% of its ChatGPT citation share versus August
Sep 24, 2026External links in Google AI Overviews jump from near zero to over 25%
Sep 18, 2026Peec AI publishes ChatGPT's internal retrieval engine list from Yeşilyurt leak
Sep 18, 2026ChatGPT now cites LinkedIn posts almost 5x more than Pulse articles
Sep 17, 2026Landwehr: under 5% of AI Search practitioners sit in communications
Sep 17, 2026Konitzny maps 69 engines behind ChatGPT retrieval, 48 tagged internal
Sep 17, 2026Landwehr turns signup questions into a live prompt corpus
Sep 16, 2026Listicle share fell because ChatGPT's source pool grew 75%, Konitzny finds
Sep 16, 2026Malte Landwehr on why a competitor's 1,100% SEO jump did not last
Sep 15, 2026Specific figures beat vague copy in every one of 60 GPT-5.4 trials
Sep 15, 2026Google is paying some publishers when their content shapes AI answers
Sep 15, 2026Google AI Mode cites 72% fewer sources for logged-out users since mid-August
Sep 15, 2026Suganthan Mohanadasan makes Claude Code pay to crawl his site using x402
Sep 7, 2026ChatGPT fetched 223 pages and cited 16 on one prompt, Yeşilyurt logs
Sep 5, 2026ChatGPT flags 'inauthentic mentions' on self-ranked listicles
Sep 4, 2026Turley testified OpenAI planned its own index from day one

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