Microsoft Advertising has begun the global rollout of AI Max for Search campaigns, expanding availability after a pilot that started in May. The feature suite includes search term matching, text custo…
An engineer's analysis of 36 days of server logs reveals that Bing's crawler, bingbot, now hits his site 4.2 times more than Googlebot, and that ChatGPT's citations largely derive from Bing's index. C…
Mozilla is rolling out an optional ad blocker in Firefox for iOS, disabled by default and using an EasyList-based filter to block third-party ad networks, ad-related trackers, and pop-ups, but it does…
A developer who logged AI crawler traffic on a small business site for 34 days found that ChatGPT's live retrieval bot (ChatGPT-User) outpaces Googlebot, fetching pages 40.3 times per day versus 35.8.…
A 2026 analysis of 680 million citations across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity found that only 11% of domains are cited by both ChatGPT and Perplexity, with a separate study of 34,234 AI…
A developer analyzed Cloudflare logs from their own site over a 23.5-hour window and split AI bot traffic into three categories: live answers (189 fetches), search indexing (541 fetches), and training…
DuckDuckGo No-AI is the best free alternative to Google, scoring 55 out of 60 in a 12-query desktop test, compared to Google's 58, according to Search Engine Watch's testing. Other recommended alterna…
Public Knowledge, a nonprofit advocacy group, argued in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Tuesday in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that Google should be required to divest the Chrome browser and b…
Microsoft unveiled Web IQ at Build 2026, an agent-focused web search tool built on the Bing search index that provides up-to-date grounding data for LLM-based applications, reducing hallucination risk…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's February 2023 overhaul of Bing with OpenAI's models failed to dent Google's search dominance, as ChatGPT itself became the more famous AI chatbot and Microsoft was forced…
Exa CEO Will Bryk said on August 3rd that Exa's index now serves 80 billion pages and tracks 1.4 trillion URLs, nearly triple the 500 billion URLs reported in May, with expectations to reach "Google-s…
The Datos x SparkToro State of Search Report for Q2 2026 reveals that zero-click searches have reached an all-time high, with only 40% of U.S. searches and 40.7% of EU/UK searches sending clicks to th…
Microsoft Research released EvoLib on July 30th, a test-time learning framework that enables large language model agents to improve across tasks without updating their underlying weights. The framewor…
Private conversations with Anthropic's Claude chatbot are appearing in Google and Bing search results due to the platform's shareable link feature creating public URLs that search engines index, as fi…
Shared AI chat links from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot can appear in search results, creating a privacy risk that developers must address by design, not just by user deletion. Reports from Wir…
Anthropic's Claude AI exposed users' private conversations — including confidential legal advice and intimate role-play — on Google and Bing after the company failed to implement a 'noindex' HTML tag …
Private conversations from Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot were indexed by Google and Bing over the weekend, exposing medical records, sensitive personal information, and internal corporate data. The in…
An urgent warning has been issued to users of Anthropic's Claude AI after hundreds of private chats were found publicly accessible via Google search, linked to a flaw in the 'share' function that fail…
Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot exposed private user chats in Google, Bing, and other search engine results because the company failed to properly block indexing of public share URLs, according to SEO e…
Ratusan percakapan yang dibagikan melalui fitur "Share" pada Claude AI sempat muncul di hasil pencarian Google dan Bing, memicu kekhawatiran privasi setelah dokumen sensitif seperti kunci API dan cata…