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OpenAI: ChatGPT Search Is 20% of Google. Visits Say 0.62%
OpenAI says ChatGPT search volume is about a fifth of Google's, but a 100-site GA4 study found ChatGPT sessions at 0.62 percent of Google organic.
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Shared AI Opt-Out Misses Bots a Viral List Blocks
A shared robots.txt signal for AI training reaches only the companies that honor it, and it runs against the training bots a viral list says to keep.
Wil Reynolds: Direct Is No Proof of AI Search Impact
Wil Reynolds says joining GA4 to Cloudflare logs showed Direct traffic is polluted, and practitioners are now triangulating imperfect signals instead of trusting one bucket.
ChatGPT Pulls In Subdomains, Ray Says. Google Adds Alerts
Lily Ray says ChatGPT's site: searches reach subdomains, and Google's help page says a parent owner is told when a child property opts out of AI features.
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Five SERP APIs Lost Up to 85% of Google Result URLs
A same-day test of five SERP APIs found 55 to 85 percent of Google organic results without a real URL, a risk for URL-matched AI citation stats.
- News
Reddit's US #1 Rankings Rose 39%. Referrals Fell
Reddit says Google referrals fell in October, yet a DataForSEO pull shows 39 percent more US #1 rankings than in May. Rank counts alone miss the loss.
- Google
AI Overviews Still Showed in Two US Desktop Checks
A rumor says Google is killing AI Overviews, but two live US desktop searches still returned them, and your own Search Console is the better test.
- Platforms
Bing Drops NoArchive and NoCache. 5 of 17 Sites Use Them
Bing says NoArchive and NoCache stop counting for AI training and grounding after March 1, 2027, and five of 17 news homepages I checked still carry them.
- Google
Marketing Group Joins EU Fight Over Google AI Controls
A digital marketing collective joined four publisher groups in asking Brussels to examine how Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode use site content, which widens the case beyond news.
- Platforms
Reddit's Login Wall Spares Search Visitors, Not Scrapers
Reddit's CEO says visitors from search should still see linked pages while logged-out scraping is the target. For AI answers, that makes licensing the open question.
- Platforms
Semrush Drops Copilot Tracking on Nov. 9, Bing Data Remains
Semrush ends Copilot tracking on November 9. Bing's own AI report may be the only Copilot number left. Save a copy before then.
- Research
Same ChatGPT Searches, Different Sources 81% of the Time
Ahrefs followed 37,500 AI citations for 20 days. Even with identical searches, ChatGPT changed its cited sites 81% of the time. brand mentions look steadier than links.
- Google
Google's AI Mode Ad CTR Claim Covers Only Product Lists
Google's case for scaling AI Mode ads is a two-week U.S. click-rate comparison of product lists, which says nothing about organic citations.
- Platforms
Experian Wins AI Mode Loan Citations. Now It Gets an App
Experian was cited in 3 of 3 AI Mode loan answers we pulled. Google says its connected app comes to Search in the coming weeks, for users who link it.
