Search Engine Journal published a guide showing that prompting an AI chatbot such as ChatGPT to search for an exact text snippet can reveal whether a page is part of the retrieval pipeline used by AI …
The Acton-Boxborough Regional School District (ABRSD) published an AI accountability document, "AI Guidelines & Guardrails," several months before American Compass's Oren Cass argued in a September 10…
Cloudflare announced Bot Preference Sync on August 21, a product that generates a website's robots.txt from three dashboard settings — Search, Agent, and Training — and prepends the entries between "#…
Google, Cloudflare, and Microsoft are each testing distinct payment models to compensate websites for AI access to or use of their content, with Google's pilot paying when a site's content "contribute…
A September 14 arXiv preprint by Sriram Selvam and Anneswa Ghosh found that the raw citation advantage of the top search result over the fifth — 85.1% versus 42.8%, a 42.3 percentage-point gap — large…
A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign preprint found that Reddit's AI search feature favored formal, already-upvoted comments over those with personal-experience markers, with a one-standard-devia…
Product page copy still matters even as AI agents read product feeds and schema markup, according to an Ask an SEO column published by Search Engine Journal, because large language models such as Chat…
Google published a new guide explaining how publishers and creators can add a Search Profile badge to their websites, a feature currently enabled only for United States-based publishers and creators. …
Google is rolling out cart transfer and expanded checkout testing in the Merchant Center hub for its Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), letting shoppers move items from Google to a merchant's own site…
A study posted to arXiv, MemToC, found that instruction-tuned language models retained a correct answer only 6.5% to 17.1% of the time when an external tool returned incorrect information, with result…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 calling for the AI industry to slow down, with OpenAI's Sam Altman, xAI's Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis signin…
Content created specifically to improve AI search visibility can stall with Google's "Crawled – currently not indexed" status because it merely replicates top-performing pages rather than adding new i…
Former Google researcher Jeff Dean said Gemini's origins trace to a one-page memo he wrote urging separate teams at Google Brain, Legacy DeepMind, and Google Research to combine their people, ideas, a…
Meta launched Muse on September 8, a personal AI agent that can open a browser, fill out forms, and check out with Link built by Stripe, running on a dedicated Muse Secure VM in the U.S. via WhatsApp …
Anthropic published prompting techniques for Claude Fable 5.1 that it says can save tokens and improve results, including a short writing prompt that reads "Please remove all mannered prose." Anthropi…
AI citation clicks account for roughly 1% to 2% of calls for CallRail's customers, a share that has about doubled since January, CallRail VP of Technology Sean McCrohan said during SEJ Live's second s…
Google search advocate John Mueller acknowledged that Search Console's reporting for AI search is inadequate, agreeing with a Reddit critique that AI Overviews impression and position metrics are misl…
LightSite AI founder Stas Levitan presented a four-signal framework for measuring AI search performance in an on-demand webinar with Search Engine Journal founder Loren Baker, arguing that AI mentions…
Search Engine Journal will host a webinar on Thursday, September 24 at 11 am ET with Google and Uberall on preparing local SEO strategies for Google's upcoming AI search updates, citing that 68% of br…
Google changed its Maps content policy in April, barring merchants from asking staff to request a set number of reviews or reviews that mention specific details such as a staff member's name, Moz VP o…