Attackers abused Anthropic's Claude Artifacts feature to host a fake download page on the genuine claude.ai domain, leading to malware infections. Huntress researchers disclosed that employees at at l…
Staan has launched the first European Search API, offering web search, news, and AI-powered answer features with pricing up to 9 times cheaper than competitors like Google, Bing, and Brave. The API pr…
Quiche Industries has updated Quiche Browser to disable AI overviews in search results by default, routing queries to AI-free versions of Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, and Brave. Founder Greg de J. called…
A developer who built a movie-discovery site, Flickomatic, with AI assistance discovered four hidden cost drivers that caused a weekly hosting bill of $82. The culprits included ISR writes billed in 8…
Cloudflare is threatening to block Google's multi-purpose crawlers from accessing ad-supported webpages starting September 15, 2026, unless Google provides a technical solution that allows publishers …
SEO.bike launched a free suite of SEO and generative engine optimization (GEO) tools, plus a managed service that connects to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster to automate site improvements whi…
AI engines and autonomous agents now decide which brands to recommend, trust, and transact with, with Adobe data showing a 4,700% year-over-year increase in AI-referred traffic to U.S. retail websites…
AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews use retrieval-augmented generation pipelines to select sources, citing only a fraction of retrieved pages. ChatGPT relies heavily …
SEO is not dead, but low-quality SEO is dying as AI search relies on crawlable, structured, and trustworthy websites for citations. Google's generative AI features use retrieval-augmented generation (…
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…