Last Week in AI Search: October 26
Google lets Gmail and Photos data shape ads · Cloudflare helped OpenAI find hundreds of millions of pages · AI tools recommended vets with 200+ reviews…
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Oct 26 · · AEO, Research, Tools & Vendors
Weekly
The week's stream compiled — the recap index this wire promised itself in its founding memo, and the one place the week is read rather than reported. Each issue is an item of the record: dated, linked, corrected like any other. It goes out by email at 7am ET on Mondays and stands as the front page's lead for the day.
Google lets Gmail and Photos data shape ads · Cloudflare helped OpenAI find hundreds of millions of pages · AI tools recommended vets with 200+ reviews…
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Oct 26 · · AEO, Research, Tools & Vendors
ChatGPT dropped its link tags for a week · Google served decoy results to rank trackers · 97% of the pages ChatGPT's search finds aren't in Google's top 50
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Oct 19 · · AEO, Research, Google Search
A second firm finds AI Overviews on 82% of branded searches · Cloudflare quietly erased 118 sites' AI crawler bans · AI Overviews skip brands that rank…
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Oct 12 · · AEO, Google Search, Tools & Vendors
Judge dismisses publishers' AI Overviews antitrust suit · Gemini starts tagging the links it sends · Agent-ready sites get recommended 1.9 times as often…
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Oct 5 · · Google Search, AEO, Research
Atlantic robots.txt allows GPTBot, Cloudflare blocks it · Study: Google AI Mode cuts clicks and erodes user trust · Google tests AI Overviews below hotel…
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Sep 28 · · AEO, Google Search, Engines
El País blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot · Study: Google AI Overviews cut publisher clicks nearly 40% · Ahrefs: AI Overviews cut CTR 23% in…
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Sep 21 · · Google Search, AEO, Law & Money
GEO content scores barely predict AI citations, study finds · Amazon Ads pilots ChatGPT Ads buying through its DSP · Adform becomes ChatGPT Ads' first…
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Sep 14 · · Google Search, AEO, Research
The week's record, Monday 7am ET: what shipped, who got cited, where the law and money moved. Dated, sourced, no takes. Read a past issue first if you like.