AI Search news and analysis on Web Pulse: 727 curated articles tracking the latest AI Search developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Teams already running Postgres with corpora in the millions of vectors should start with the pgvector extension, which keeps embeddings in the same row and transaction as source data and provides HNSW and IVFFlat approxi…
A developer released rankprobe, an MIT-licensed Python tool that audits a site for 36 SEO and AI-crawler checks and can fail a pull request in CI when issues like a stray noindex, an overlong meta description, or a robot…
A developer built a free, no-account llms.txt generator that reads a site's sitemap and produces a spec-style /llms.txt file in seconds, plus an optional llms-full.txt containing short excerpts of every page. The tool fo…
A developer released deepseek-search-cli, an open-source TypeScript command-line wrapper around DeepSeek's web search API, published on npm and GitHub. The tool lets agents run web searches and fetch URLs via simple comm…
Mintlify launched Mintlify Base in beta, an internal-knowledge workspace built on the same platform as Mintlify Docs where people and agents share specs, runbooks, and onboarding pages. Base includes a built-in MCP serve…
Redis engineers rebuilt the retrieval layer behind an agent interface for redis.io/docs, moving from a single broad documentation entity, RedisioDoc, to multiple entities linked by explicit relationships so coding agents…
Perplexity's voice mode now runs on OpenAI's gpt-live-1 model, an upgrade announced October 28, 2026 for the Mac app and web interface that gives Pro and Max subscribers full-duplex voice, letting the system keep listeni…
Google's AI Mode in Search sometimes declined to name Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 US presidential election, instead directing users to official records at the Federal Election Commission or National Archives, acc…
Pages cited in AI answers opened with a direct answer to the question 23% of the time, versus 14% for pages the same AI answer surfaced but did not cite, according to a TJ Digital analysis of 193,507 AI answers from Chat…
Google's AI Mode declined to state that Joe Biden won the 2020 US presidential election for users in the United States, instead returning links to outside sources, Ars Technica's Kyle Orland found, while Google's Gemini …
Google announced the Connected Apps Platform, a unified way for third-party developers to bring their services into the Gemini app and Search, with more than 50 Connected Apps already available in Gemini including Adobe,…
Google opened a beta preview of its Connected Apps Platform to U.S. developers, letting businesses build and submit apps that work inside Google Search and the Gemini app. Developers integrate with a cloud-hosted MCP (Mo…
A Show HN experiment called whalesong used an agentic search setup built on a bespoke mini-harness with Gemini Argon (low) to find conversation partners among Bluesky posts, matching 79% of a 100-post sample set to meani…
A developer described a staged retrieval architecture for multi-tenant SaaS help centers that enforces mandatory tenant filters, document-version tracking and freshness contracts to prevent cross-tenant leaks and stale c…
Fibr AI CEO Ankur "AJ" Goyal launched Agent Experience Optimization (AXO) on October 28, pitching the product as a way for brands to shape how AI systems read their websites and to let agents complete supported tasks the…
A developer published a guide showing how to give a Pydantic AI agent live web search using Pydantic AI's built-in MCP client, connecting an MCPToolset to a stdio search server via npx with no API key or extra Python pac…
A developer built VibeCodePicks, a free directory of 103 AI coding tools across 19 categories, with a deterministic multilingual search box that matches queries in ten languages against 49 hand-maintained intents without…
A study of the top 10,000 websites found that 29.8% of robots.txt files that block paths for all crawlers and name an AI crawler let that crawler past at least one of those blocks (329 of 1,105 files), according to the 2…
Farrukh Abdullah Advisory published a three-layer JSON-LD entity-graph approach for making brands machine-verifiable to AI answer engines such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT Search and Perplexity. The method assigns eac…
A developer built AI Brand Monitor, an Apify Actor that returns the full source list behind AI engine answers—URL, page title and quoted snippet—for each query, along with a stability score showing how often a domain is …