Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers exploding, publishers blocking bots, and many platforms sending little traffic back.

Analysis of 18,377 query pairs shows retrieval-based AI systems like Perplexity achieve 43% domain overlap with Google, while reasoning models like ChatGPT cite only 21% of the same sources Search ...

New research from BrightEdge shows that Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, and ChatGPT recommend different brands nearly 62% of the time. BrightEdge concludes that each AI search platform is interpreting ...

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Gutenberg unlocked words. The internet and Google unlocked facts. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t just unlocking thought; it’s shaping it. Across history, technology has expanded human ...

The shift from traditional search engines to AI-powered answer engines signals more than a technical upgrade. It marks a fundamental change in how people discover, evaluate, and act on information.

After making the decision to ditch Google Search a few months ago, I’ve been making it a point to keep an eye out for new products to try. Amusingly, it took me quite a while to realize there are ...

The comprehensive study of 18,377 semantically matched query pairs reveals that AI-generated answers cite fundamentally different web sources than those appearing in search engine results pages (SERPs ...