Cloudflare network signals enable ChatGPT search to index hundreds of millions of new pages

Search Engine Journal tested DeepSeek's Search API and found it automatically filters out pages lacking date metadata, removing 11% of results, along with six other ranking and scoring behaviors SEOs should audit.

Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots access websites via cloud browsers and connectors rather than traditional crawling, potentially circumventing robots.txt rules and affecting analytics tracking.

European data regulators issued guidelines telling AI developers to respect robots.txt blocks and adopt six other data minimization practices, with public comment closing October 30.

Forbes joined Google's paid News AI pilot program to test new AI-powered features while gaining insights into how its content performs across Google's platforms.