A randomized field experiment found Google's AI Overviews cause a 39.8% drop in organic clicks, but the lost clicks showed no difference in bounce rates, dwell time, or return-to-search behavior, cont…
Microsoft announced Web IQ, a suite of grounding APIs for AI agents, and expanded AI citation reporting in Bing Webmaster Tools, separating AI citations from traditional search rankings. The company s…
Cloudflare will block mixed-use AI crawlers from accessing ad-supported websites by default starting September 15, 2026, aiming to give publishers more control over AI data usage. The company also reb…
Cloudflare announced it will block mixed-use web crawlers from accessing ad-supported customer websites by default starting September 15, 2026, to give publishers more control over AI content harvesti…
Fabrice Canel, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, retired on July 1 after nearly 30 years at the company, citing the Voluntary Retirement Program. Canel led Bing's web crawling and indexing …
A developer built a free technical checker that evaluates whether a website is ready to be crawled, understood, extracted, and trusted by AI-powered search engines. The tool separates 'AI visibility' …
AI models from OpenAI and Google can now scan and synthesize web data in real time, providing direct answers instead of traditional search links. However, these systems lack proactive monitoring capab…
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed SearchLeak, a three-stage vulnerability chain in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise that can exfiltrate emails, MFA codes, calendar items, SharePoint and OneDrive files via…
Seltz, a nine-person startup, raised $12.5 million in seed funding to build a search infrastructure purpose-built for AI agents, replacing legacy APIs like Google and Bing. The company wrote its own c…
Google posted $109.9 billion in Q1 2026 revenue, its fastest growth since 2022, and still controls 90% of search, but talent defections, rising competitors like ChatGPT and Bing, antitrust remedies, a…
ChatGPT and Gemini secretly perform traditional web searches in the background to generate answers, and a new free tool called QueryFan reveals exactly which searches each model triggers. Analysis sho…
Microsoft rolled out AI Citation Share and other features in Bing Webmaster Tools, while new data from Google and Ahrefs cast doubt on the effectiveness of llms.txt for AI search visibility. Google, M…
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed a critical vulnerability chain called SearchLeak in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise that could allow attackers to exfiltrate emails, MFA codes, and files via a one-click…
Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in its Copilot Enterprise chatbot that allowed hackers to steal two-factor authentication codes and access sensitive organizational data through a single cli…
Microsoft is rolling out four new features to Bing Webmaster Tools' AI Performance dashboard: Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare. Citation Share shows a site's percentage of all citations fo…
Varonis Threat Labs discovered a three-stage vulnerability chain called SearchLeak in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search that allows attackers to exfiltrate sensitive data with a single click. Th…
Microsoft's new Copilot Studio, announced at Build 2026, introduces a powerful orchestrator powered by Claude with direct access to Bash, Python, and Node environments, intelligent memory for cross-se…
Security researchers at Varonis Threat Labs disclosed a vulnerability chain in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search, dubbed SearchLeak, that could allow attackers to steal emails, calendar data, an…
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed a critical one-click data-exfiltration vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search, tracked as CVE-2026-42824. The attack chains a parameter-to-prompt inject…
A critical vulnerability chain called SearchLeak in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise could allow attackers to steal sensitive data from a target's mailbox, OneDrive, or SharePoint account through a sp…