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Google pilots payments for content in AI answers as Mueller flags AI position tracking challenges

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Google is piloting payments for content used in AI answers while tracker John Mueller notes difficulty reporting AI position data.

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Search Engine Journal reports that Google is testing a payments program for content contributors to its AI-generated answers, alongside a note from John Mueller highlighting the challenge of tracking and reporting position data within AI results. Cloudflare has also made changes to separate its content from search training datasets.

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