Ahrefs finds Google serves abnormal or stale pages to SEO data tools at scale

Google's John Illyes clarified that robots.txt controls crawler access but does not prevent content from being used for AI model training.

Publishers are coordinating across the US and EU to push for legislation requiring AI bots to identify themselves as a defense against scraping.

Google expanded its list of content exclusion methods to seven, adding Search Console AI controls alongside existing snippet and indexing rules.

Google updated its URL best practices documentation as the search community reported elevated ranking volatility over the past day.