NIQ and Similarweb are building an Agentic Commerce Measurement product that tracks AI-driven product discovery across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 3 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
BrightEdge has rebranded Autopilot — its internal-linking automation tool with a decade of production history — as "Site Agent," now the first of three…
Via BrightEdge Blog ↗ · Sep 3 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO, SEO
Profound introduced Context Manager, a layer that organizes a company's brand knowledge — spanning company, market, offerings, audience, strategy, and…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Sep 1 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
On September 15 Cloudflare sets new defaults for the three crawler classifications it introduced in July.
Via Cloudflare Blog ↗ · Aug 30 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors, AEO
GreyNoise reported on August 28 that scanners forging AI-crawler names probed the open web for credential files from 824 addresses across 795 separate…
Via GreyNoise ↗ · Aug 30 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Profound introduced native Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) nodes for Profound Agents, letting them list, search, get, create, and update AEM content…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Aug 28 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
When Cloudflare launched Bot Preference Sync on August 21 it set four conditions a crawler doing both search and training must meet to keep reaching sites…
Via Cloudflare Blog ↗ · Aug 27 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors, AEO
BrightEdge launched Agent Edge, a platform that detects AI-agent requests at the CDN layer and serves a lightweight, Markdown-formatted version of a…
Via BrightEdge Blog ↗ · Aug 25 · · AEO, Tools & Vendors
Profound's analysis of 24,135 responses collected July 13–23 found Claude searched the web in over 93% of responses versus just 13% for Claude Code, and…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Aug 24 · · Research, AEO, Tools & Vendors
Cloudflare on August 21 launched Bot Preference Sync, which keeps a site's robots.txt in step with the AI-crawler policy set in its dashboard.
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 23 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
OpenAI added a campaign-level control letting advertisers include or exclude iOS App, Android App or Web from ad delivery, a lever absent since ChatGPT…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 21 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
Profound added a YouTube Citation Breakdown to its Answer Engine Insights product on August 19, showing which channels, individual videos, and video…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Aug 19 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
An SEO tested crawler discovery on a 2,400-page site by splitting internal links between hard-coded HTML and JavaScript-injected versions, then logging…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 19 · · Research, AEO, Tools & Vendors
Promptwatch found Reddit's share of ChatGPT Search citations fell from an average of 3.83% (Jul.
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 19 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Microsoft Clarity's Bot Analytics dashboard added an AI Scrape-to-Referral Ratio card on August 13, ranking which AI crawlers send return visitors against…
Via Semrush Blog ↗ · Aug 19 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Jeremy Howard, the Answer.AI developer who created llms.txt, published a version 2 update to the spec on August 10 — its first revision since the format…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Aug 17 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
WP Engine has dropped the hosting requirement for its Smart Search AI plugin, making the semantic-search tool available on any WordPress site regardless…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 17 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Profound launched a feature called Citation Decay on August 13, tracking week-over-week citation counts for every cited URL to show how a citation's…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Aug 13 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Similarweb added AI Ads to its Ad Intelligence product on August 13, giving marketers visibility into actual ad creatives and landing pages running inside…
Via Similarweb Blog ↗ · Aug 13 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google added AI Overview cards to the Google Analytics homepage that summarize account activity since a user's last login, plus AI-powered insight cards…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 11 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors
PatronView, a database of U.S. museum and cultural-institution donor records, blocked Amazon's Amzn-SearchBot crawler in early August after founder Nick…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 8 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google's Gemini assistant can now edit Google Business Profile listings for accounts managing multiple locations, expanding a feature that launched in…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 7 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors
OpenAI is testing a multi-product carousel format for ChatGPT product feed ads and will launch ChatGPT Ads in Brazil and Mexico in the coming week, per…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 7 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
Cloudflare added two tools to its dashboard on August 6: Agent Readiness, a technical audit of how well AI crawlers and agents can discover and read a…
Via Cloudflare Blog ↗ · Aug 6 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Shopify president Harley Finkelstein told the company's Q2 earnings call that AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify merchant stores tripled year over…
Via TechCrunch AI ↗ · Aug 5 · · SEO, Tools & Vendors
The Interactive Advertising Bureau published a 36-page framework, "Measuring Visibility in the AI Era," on August 3, requiring AI-visibility vendors to…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 4 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Microsoft Clarity's AI Citations dashboard now labels queries as branded or non-branded and breaks out Share of Authority by query type, the company said…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 3 · · Tools & Vendors
Reps. Laurel Lee (R-FL), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) introduced the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, H.R.
Via News/Media Alliance ↗ · Jul 23 · · Law & Money, Tools & Vendors
Cloudflare announced two initiatives on July 1, 2026 to reshape AI-era crawling economics.
Via Cloudflare Blog ↗ · Jul 1 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
IAB Australia published version 1.0 of its Bots and Crawler Guidance and Decision Matrix on July 22, 2026, unveiling it at the Discovery: AI and Search…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Jul 30 · · Tools & Vendors, Law & Money
Search Console's platform properties — which let Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube accounts be verified as first-class properties and show how their posts…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Jul 30 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, SEO
Time has converted its web pages into markdown — stripped-down, text-only copies without design or images — to make its content easier for AI crawlers and…
Via Digiday Media ↗ · Jul 30 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO, SEO
OpenAI is testing a new "Agent" campaign type in ChatGPT Ads Manager that sends users into a Business Agent conversation instead of to the advertiser's…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Jul 31 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
OpenAI rolled out a batch of ChatGPT Ads updates, including optimized cost-per-click campaigns that bid toward likely conversions, geographic exclusion…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Jul 24 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
Ahrefs released a free web tool that builds an llms.txt file for any domain, drawing on the company's prior analysis of llms.txt adoption across 137,000…
Via Ahrefs Blog ↗ · Jul 24 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
