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Nov 14Sat
  1. The Verge · AI45

    Amazon has a plan to index the world’s online shopping data

    According to Reuters, Amazon plans a "World Product Graph" project to build a vault of data on every product sold anywhere online, including items Amazon doesn't sell, and make it available through its own site. The effort aims to keep shoppers and AI agents on Amazon for product research and to give its Alexa for Shopping assistant more data; an internal document reportedly cites an October 1st, 2027 release date, though Amazon said draft documents don't necessarily reflect current plans.

Nov 13Fri
  1. Hacker News AI22

    AI search is recommending fake retail websites

    The study collected 6,795 answers from the logged-out, consumer-facing versions of ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, working with Gauge, an AI search company. The material is largely a FAQ for Podqi, an AI-native IP enforcement service that detects misuse across 180+ platforms and files takedown notices, typically resolving within 48 hours.

Nov 11Wed
Nov 9Mon
  1. Hacker News AI58

    We Opted Out of Google AI Search – Here's What Happened

    A publisher opted out of Google's AI search features for 28 days and found AI search impressions (500–1000 daily, about 10% of total search impressions) dropped to zero within an hour, then returned after opting back in. Statistical analysis estimated an AI search CTR of about 0.9% (range 0.7%–1.1%), more than double the site's roughly 0.4% overall Google CTR, and a small but significant ~2.3% halo effect on regular organic CTR. Combined, the authors estimate Google's AI search was responsible for about 23% of total search clicks to the site, though they caution the single-site results are directional only.

Nov 7Sat
  1. Hacker News AI71

    Brave Sells Its Search Index to AI, and Your Website Is Probably in It

    The New York Times sued Brave on Nov. 2, alleging it copied more than 30 billion webpages without identifying its crawler or offering a way to block it, then sold that content to AI companies through its Search API, which Brave says is used by Cohere, Mistral, Perplexity and You.com. Because Brave's crawler does not advertise a differentiated user agent and instead follows Googlebot's rules, site owners cannot block Brave without also blocking Google, and opting out via noindex also removes pages from Google. Brave has not yet responded to the suit.

Nov 5Thu
  1. TechCrunch · AI40

    DuckDuckGo pitches itself to schools amid backlash over Google’s AI policy

    After Google told schools they could disable Gemini but said turning off its other AI features would also cost them Google Search, DuckDuckGo promoted its own service as a replacement default search engine for schools. DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg pointed to documentation on switching search engines and offered help, while its public affairs chief criticized Google, and the company said Google could easily turn off Search's AI features for schools if it wanted to. DuckDuckGo offers its own AI features but lets users disable them, including via noai.duckduckgo.com, and said earlier this year its app installs were up 30%.

Nov 4Wed
  1. The Verge · AI60

    OpenAI says ChatGPT is catching up to Google in search

    OpenAI consumer product lead Adam Fry said at a Monday press event that search queries through ChatGPT now equal 20 percent of Google's search volume, defining a search as a query that results in a web search. He did not specify the source of the Google figure, and the article notes OpenAI likely relies on Microsoft Bing for a significant part of its searches alongside its in-house index. Fry also said ads have not negatively impacted the product or its usage, as OpenAI expands sponsored product images in ChatGPT.

Nov 3Tue
  1. Big Technology65

    OpenAI: ChatGPT Search Is About 20% of Google’s, 250 Million People Speak With ChatGPT, and Chat Is Merging With Work

    OpenAI's Adam Fry said ChatGPT grew from 1 billion to 1.2 billion weekly active users in 60 days, and that its volume of search-like queries is roughly one-fifth of Google's. He said voice mode, combining dictation and speaking with ChatGPT, has 250 million combined weekly active users, and that OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work modes.

Nov 1Sun
  1. Hacker News AI22

    Ask HN: Has Google started cleaning their search results from AI slop?

    An indie developer reports that impressions and clicks on two personal projects dropped from roughly 500-700 impressions and 10-15 clicks daily to almost zero in one day, and says research pointed to a Google anti-spam policy change around Oct 26 that removed many links from the index. They ask how many indie hackers and SEO-focused builders were affected, since many young products depend on search traffic, and whether this is temporary or signals higher quality expectations from search engines.

Oct 31Sat
Oct 29Thu
  1. TechCrunch · AI58

    Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows

    Google announced during Alphabet's Q3 earnings call that it is expanding ads in AI Mode and AI Overviews to international markets, alongside multi-turn ads and AI Mode in the U.S. Alphabet reported $127.6 billion in revenue, up 25% year over year, but Search advertising growth decelerated to 12% from 17% in Q2 and 19% in Q1, and shares fell 8%. Google says click-through rates for sponsored product listings in AI Mode are comparable to organic listings, and CEO Sundar Pichai said AI Mode queries are three times longer on average than traditional searches.

Oct 27Tue
  1. The Decoder60

    OpenAI's partner content arrives in ChatGPT pre-summarized while the rest of the web gets raw scraps

    An analysis by Peec AI researcher David Konitzny found that content from OpenAI licensing partners flows into ChatGPT through a dedicated pipeline that gives it priority over the rest of the web. Through a field named "provider" populated by an engine called "labrador," he identified 12 publishers with 43 domains, including Condé Nast, Hearst, Axel Springer, News Corp, Reuters, and AP, plus recipe and product sites like Allrecipes, Tom's Guide, and Welt. Partner pages arrive as pre-generated summaries placed ahead of all web results, while regular pages arrive as raw text snippets; in 1,000 analyzed cases, summaries named 70 percent of entries in positions 1 through 3 but only 23 percent of those in positions 7 through 10.