Third-Party Google Rank Tracking Struggling Now
Google has been poisoning the search engine results pages it serves to rank trackers since September 2026, with 8.0% of SERPs coming back poisoned, according to a Nozzle deep dive by Derek Perkins. Pe…
Google has been poisoning the search engine results pages it serves to rank trackers since September 2026, with 8.0% of SERPs coming back poisoned, according to a Nozzle deep dive by Derek Perkins. Pe…
Google appears to have blocked third-party SEO data scrapers since around September 13, 2026, with Nozzle's Derek Perkins reporting an approximately 80% drop in data his tools could pull from Google S…
Common Crawl's July 2026 crawl (CC-MAIN-2026-30) recorded 598,298 responses to /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt seed requests, of which 14,191 were empty, leaving 584,107 files analyzed for spec complianc…
A developer built the Google AI Overview Citation Tracker, a tool that renders real Google SERPs in a browser to extract citation data from AI Overview carousels — the only programmatic method availab…