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Bing is the anti-AI search engine you should be using

PCWorld argues that Bing is a better choice than AI-heavy search engines because it surfaces human-authored content and links to original sources, while keeping Microsoft Copilot as an optional button rather than forcing AI summaries to the top of results. The article says AI search engines like Google's AI Mode can hide sources and produce misleading information, citing a ChatGPT example, and notes that Google's AI results can be partly avoided with tricks like adding "-ai" or "udm=14" to a query or switching Chrome's default search engine to Bing.

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.

Show HN: AI News Agg – Know what's trending in AI news

The author built a site that tracks AI-only news and announcements from 48 selected sources, including mainstream media, tech publications, bloggers, and company websites. A story is marked as trending and placed at the top of the site when three or more of these outlets cover it, and users can get an email when a new story starts trending. There is also an option for a personalized daily AI brief on subjects or entities a user wants to follow.

Keenable 1.0: Search at the Speed of AI

Keenable launched version 1.0, which it says ranks #1 on the Artificial Analysis Search Index (BrowseComp, DeepSearchQA and AA-Omniscience) and #1 on NEEDLE, its open-source AI web search benchmark rerun daily on fresh queries. The release adds 100 million knowledge cards summarizing key facts on frequently searched topics and dynamic snippets that extract needed context from full documents, cutting token consumption by 50% on research tasks, with answers in hundreds of milliseconds. New accounts start with 100,000 requests as a welcome bonus, with one key and one MCP endpoint.

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.

Google’s latest Search upgrade promises better answers to your most complicated questions

Google says its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model, described as its "biggest model improvement to Search yet," improves Search's handling of multi-part questions, highly specific requests and confusing typos. Hydrogen completes tasks 2.5 times faster than Gemini 3.8 Flash and is rolling out to all Search users globally, while also coming to AI Studio, the Gemini API, the Gemini App, AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, and Antigravity.

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Google Search gets a major upgrade with Gemini 4 Hydrogen

Google announced that Gemini 4 Hydrogen, described as the biggest model upgrade to Search yet, is now available globally in Google Search for all users. The company says it improves understanding of intent for nuanced multi-part questions and typos, strengthens query fan-out and linking to surface more helpful sites, and delivers more visual responses such as images, comparison tables and custom tools, with richer language understanding across supported AI Mode languages.

AI chatbots are recommending fake retail websites, study finds

A study by IP protection firm Podqi, shared with The Verge, tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity with shopping-related prompts about 151 brands and found all three cited risky sites, including fake retailer impersonators, re-registered old domains, and dead sites. Across 6,795 answers, Perplexity showed risky sites in 15 percent of answers, ChatGPT in 8 percent, and Gemini in 4 percent, with smaller brands appearing especially at risk.

Discourse (forums) sees itself well positioned for the AI search era (vs Reddit)

Discourse argues that Reddit's move toward a logged-in experience, driven by scraping concerns, falling search referrals and ad targeting, reflects an ad-based business model that its own forum customers don't share. It contends that for support forums and knowledge communities, an AI answer that resolves a user's problem without a click can still be a win, provided sources stay attributed and live links let people reach the full thread. Discourse says community operators, not a central platform, should control data boundaries, and that openness to AI retrieval is distinct from allowing bulk pre-training scrapes.

Yahoo is betting the house on its new AI, from search to all its services

A Fast Company article, shared on Hacker News, reports that Yahoo is making a major bet on its new AI across search and all of its services, including a new search experience called Yahoo Scout. The Hacker News submission had 2 points and no comments.

MAMIXcite is AI visibility+SEO+AEO+GEO+ Business improvement. is this useful?

MAMIXcite is a platform that observes how answer engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI describe, compare and recommend a business, then diagnoses competitive gaps, prioritizes improvements, supports owner-approved execution and measures before-and-after change. It adds a "Business Excellence Intelligence" layer aimed at the business itself — service quality, customer experience, operations and credibility — and states it cannot guarantee AI recommendations. It is positioned for businesses in the UAE, starting with dental and healthcare clinics, property maintenance and home services, real estate, and agencies.

Show HN: Uplumo – See which pages AI answers cite

Uplumo is an SEO and AI search platform that tracks Google rankings, audits sites, shows where AI assistants mention a brand, and measures AI referral traffic via a cookie-free tracker. Its AI Visibility feature inspects brand mentions and cited sources across supported models, while plans range from a free tier to Business at $69/month with white-label reports. The post states that AI Visibility does not cover every answer and that Uplumo does not guarantee rankings or sales.

I don't want AI in my online search. What options do I have?

Google's new AI policy for schools led to headlines claiming Google search can no longer be used without AI, prompting the article to explain that all search engines rely on machine learning, so no search is truly "without AI." It distinguishes this from generative AI features like AI Overviews, which have no official off switch on Google but can be avoided by appending "&udm=14" to the search URL or by using alternatives such as DuckDuckGo, Brave Search or Ecosia that disable AI summaries by default.

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.

Who do AI search engines name when buyers ask about 12 cold-email tools?

A citation check run on 8 November 2026 put four buyer questions per tool to Groq web search and Gemini with Google Search for 12 cold-email and outbound tools, recording whether each tool's own domain was named and which domains were named instead. No tool was named in more than half of its own answers, and instantly.ai, mailshake.com and quickmail.com were never named; the two engines also disagreed, with lemlist.com named in 4 of 4 Gemini answers and 0 of 3 Groq answers. reply.io was not checked because its site did not answer the fetch during the run.

Show HN: Trendalyse – Explore Ideas with Google Trends and AI

Trendalyse is a market research tool that uses Google Trends via SerpApi and DeepSeek Flash to explore search interest and turn it into testable ideas. It lets users compare up to five topics, explore related queries, export CSV data, and shape a focused hypothesis. The tool cautions that search interest isn't purchase intent and encourages validating hypotheses with real customers.

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.

Citable – Get recommended by AI and create blog posts automatically

Citable is a subscription tool that weekly asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Perplexity buyer questions to measure how often answers name and link to your site versus competitors, then proposes and publishes sourced articles, page fixes and outreach, and re-checks whether citations changed. Plans run from $24 to $90 per month per site with 8 to 45 articles included, and a free one-off report covers up to five questions on three engines.

Amazon will let you text Alexa your shopping list

Amazon is adding a texting feature to Alexa for Shopping that lets customers describe products or send a photo, receive matching recommendations from Amazon listings, and have Alexa place the order on their behalf. The contact appears as "Amazon Alexa" and can handle requests like weekly groceries, gift ideas, and price-drop alerts, remembering personal preferences over time. It is rolling out to a small group of US customers today, with a wider rollout to "millions more customers" in the coming weeks.

Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG

Apple researchers present amortized maximum inner product search (MIPS), training small neural networks offline on a fixed key database to learn the support function of the key set, which is convex and whose gradient returns the best-matching key. SupportNet learns per-cluster support functions to route queries more accurately than centroid-based routing, while KeyNet rewrites queries before a standard IVF index; on Natural Questions, SupportNet reached 95% routing recall about 1.9× faster than centroid routing, and KeyNet cut the time to 99% recall by up to ~8×. The work was presented at ICML 2026.

Google Summaries Aren't About AI, They're About Lock-In

This EFF piece argues that Google's AI summaries, like its earlier knowledge panels and AMP, are less about answering queries well than about keeping users and their data inside Google's ecosystem, where more time on the page means more ad exposure. It notes the irony that AI mode has produced "lower monetization" via ads, and urges readers to remember that Google's monetary incentives, not the technology, drive these features.

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%.

Show HN: GTMshortlist – I asked Claude for the best AI SDR. It wasn't yours

GTMshortlist is a directory of GTM AI tools ranked by monthly US search volume from Semrush (October 2026), with categories including AI SDR, AI CRM, data enrichment and AI video generators. The site states that nobody can pay to move up, sponsored spots are labeled and sit above the ranked list, and listings pass automated checks and are re-checked weekly. Vendors can claim a listing free or get Verified for $199 a year.

Block training, keep answers? What 13,938 sites ask of AI bots

Trakis Research analyzed robots.txt files from 13,938 readable sites in Common Crawl's September 2026 archive and found that of sites blocking OpenAI's GPTBot by name, 17.1% also block OAI-SearchBot and 25.9% block ChatGPT-User. The figure splits sharply by method: sites using Cloudflare's managed robots.txt rarely block answer bots (0.3% and 1.0%), while sites writing their own rules block them far more often (31.3% and 47.0%). Training bots are blocked about three times as often as answer bots, while Googlebot and Bingbot are almost never blocked.

Microsoft Bing AI Search Choice

A Microsoft Corporation browser extension, version 1.0.0.3 and last updated June 6, 2026, lets users toggle whether AI-generated answers appear in Bing results, and also sets Bing as the default search provider and opens Bing on every new tab. The listing states preferences apply automatically across searches and that the developer has declared data is not sold to third parties or used for purposes unrelated to core functionality.

Netflix’s new AI Discover tab helps you find something to watch based on your mood

Netflix announced a new "AI Discover" tab that lets users find recommendations based on their current mood, viewing preferences, available time, or trending content, with themes like "something light," "scare me," and "family movie night." The tab is powered by a new intelligence layer that responds to user input in real time and keeps learning, and includes a "Tune Your Recommendations" option to save or exclude titles. AI Discover is rolling out first in the U.S. to English-language users on supported TVs, with a "Discover" button marked by a red gem icon and "New" label in the top navigation bar.

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.

Netflix will show you themed recommendations through a new ‘AI Discover’ tab

Netflix's TV app is adding an "AI Discover" tab that shows experimental, AI-powered features to help users find shows and movies, starting with theme-based recommendations like "Something Light" or "Family Movie Night" that users can give feedback on. Netflix says the feature is powered by a new intelligence layer that responds to member input in real time and keeps learning. It is gradually rolling out in the US to members using Netflix in English on supported TVs.

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.

Show HN: How to Disable Google AI Overview

A site called AI-Free Search offers step-by-step guides for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Android and iOS on hiding Google AI Overviews, mainly by using Google's udm=14 "Web" URL parameter or a lightweight CSS extension. It states plainly that Google offers no account-wide toggle to disable AI Overviews, and that these methods do not affect Google's backend AI training. It also lists Brave, DuckDuckGo and Kagi as independent alternatives with optional AI toggles.

Own Your HackerTube,an AI Curator Inspired by Karpathy's HackerTube

Own Your HackerTube is a tool that lets you follow YouTube channels and write your own standards in plain words, after which an AI scores each new video daily and publishes only those that pass your filter, with key moments drawn from the creator's own chapters. You can mark picks as a fit or not and explain why, and the AI adds that judgment to its criteria; each site lives at ownhackertube.cc/s/yourname with an RSS feed. The free plan covers one channel and 30 AI checks a month, while Pro at $9/month follows up to 20 channels with 600 checks a month.

Improve AI Visibility

AI systems such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and other large language models generate answers by summarizing patterns from existing web content, especially listicles, comparisons and third-party editorial coverage. A free AI Visibility Report explains why some brands consistently appear in AI answers while others do not, and highlights the prompt gaps and listicle opportunities that influence AI visibility and LLM seeding.

We tested 12 search APIs for AI agents. Even the best one isn't enough

Telem.ai tested 12 web search providers on 363 agent searches with known answers and found the best single provider returned the known answer in its top five results 68% of the time, while all 12 together reached 84%, with most of the gain coming from adding a second provider (68% to 77%). For 14% of searches only one to three providers had the answer in their top five, and for 16% none of the 12 did. The team says it built Telem to close this gap and plans follow-up posts on provider result overlap and retrying after a miss.

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.

Reddit CEO admits Google's AI Mode is choking off its search traffic

A post links to a tweet reporting that Reddit's CEO acknowledged Google's AI Mode is reducing search traffic to Reddit. The item also links to a Hacker News discussion thread with 6 points and 4 comments.

Show HN: AI Knows Us – see who ChatGPT and Perplexity recommend instead of you

AI Knows Us is a service for SaaS, shops, clinics, law firms, builders and local services that finds the questions buyers ask AI apps, writes answer-first pages and pitches review sites and directories so the business gets named in AI answers, then re-checks weekly. It is free to start and then $199 a month, one month at a time, and it reports which AI apps named the business and which sources were read, with a high and low range on every number. The post cites its own Google Search Console exports from 2026-10-20 and a 2026-10-16 scan of clawlaw.in on ChatGPT and Perplexity, where 6 of 10 answers named it.

What Drives AI Citations? FAQ isn't what drives ChatGPT citations

A study of 158,099 answers and 468,037 citations across two 90-day collections of commercial questions finds that, within a single website, pages whose titles and paragraphs match the questions people ask are cited more, while FAQ blocks, structured data, summary boxes and page speed appear effective only across websites. Replaying questions through the engines' APIs shows every page ChatGPT cites is one its own search retrieved, and which pages that search retrieves explains far more of the variation than page properties (32% against 2.8%). The model's own knowledge also shapes results: ChatGPT writes brands it knows into its searches, prefers websites it knows, and names brands without any supporting page, with controlled experiments showing brand names reorder its rankings of products with identical facts.

Show HN: A free 16-point check for how AI assistants see your website

A free tool that runs 16 checks on a pasted homepage address to show whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI can read, trust and cite the site, and which checks it fails. It requires no signup, email or installation and takes a couple of seconds. It examines the homepage as a server-rendered document plus /robots.txt, /sitemap.xml and /llms.txt — four requests in total — and is described as an automated snapshot of the signals its paid audit starts from, not a prediction of ranking or citation.

An AI visibility checker that runs in the browser

Lumi GEO is a free Chrome extension that analyzes a page as AI crawlers see it, comparing the server-sent HTML with what renders in the browser and flagging text that only appears after JavaScript runs. It reports a score out of 100 across SEO, GEO, AEO and AI view pillars, lists prioritized fixes with point values, and provides copyable code such as JSON-LD and an llms.txt template. The free tier offers five analyses a day with no account, and the extension states that no browsing data is sent.

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.