Matt G. Southern

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Meta delayed its updated business terms amid complaints to EU and UK regulators. The permission to crawl sites tied to its business users hasn't changed.

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Brands logged-out ChatGPT rarely named without search also showed up less when it searched, even with cited-page coverage, in new comparison-prompt data.

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Google reminds sites to use 503s during PHP patch downtime. Other updates cover robots.txt controls, bracket URLs, and JPEG XL in Google Images and Discover.

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Rank trackers describe how they check suspect Google results, what customers see during checks, and what they say about reprocessing and past results.

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Google's new robots.txt video says the standard covers crawling, not how content gets used, and recommends percent-encoding non-English robots.txt paths.

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Google's CEO expects AI agents to reach websites by browsing pages and through protocols, and says protocols scale better but will take longer to develop.

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A Chinese AI lab opened its search engine to developers. Each result carries a page-level authority tier, and DeepSeek says it filters GEO manipulation.

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Meta removed training from the crawling clause in its upcoming Commercial Terms. The permission to crawl sites tied to business users is still in place.

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Search engines made up a smaller share of publisher pageviews in most regions than a year earlier. A lower share alone doesn't show search sent fewer pageviews.

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Cloudflare says its network signals helped OpenAI index hundreds of millions of new pages for ChatGPT search.