Slop Evader: A search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022. (Tega Brain)
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New paper: Which sources does ChatGPT provide in Germany when asked for the latest news? Main takeaway: Very different results depending on whether you use the customer chat interface or the API. Customers get more results from content partners, the API is more diverse or even fringe.
AI Search, Users, and News: A trove of data from LM Arena offers a glimpse into user search behavior. A few sources garnered the majority of impressions. (Nick Diakopoulos, Generative AI in the Newsroom)
Google steady but social and direct referrals are down: Chartbeat data shows traffic trends to 565 US and UK publishers since 2019 (Charlotte Tobitt, PressGazette)
“There’s no getting around the decline in traffic”: Another apocalyptic roundup on what’s happening with search. (Klaudia Jaźwińska, Columbia Journalism Review)
AI Mode has over 100 million monthly active users in the U.S. and India, says Google. (Abner Li, 9to5Google)
Generative AI models love to cite Reuters and Axios, Muck Rack study finds. Major models cite journalism in nearly half of responses that require recency. (Andrew Deck, NiemanLab)
Surprising no one, new report from The Pew Research Center says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks. (Ryan Whitwam, Ars Technica)
“Own the interface, control the signal and reshape the economics”: The next browser wars are here—and AI wants the ad dollars too. (Krystal Scanlon, Digiday)
How AI Companies Turn Your Browser Into Their Business Model
OpenAI will launch a browser, Perplexity has just released Comet, and YouTubers are going full clickbait mode: "NEW AI Browser is INSANE!🤯" (Really? It's insane to chat with tabs? That word gets used pretty liberally these days, considering it's AI-bros getting excited about summarizing five YouTube videos simultaneously while doing important thought leadership. Anyhow.) The...
You shall not pass… unless you pay: Cloudflare has launched a private beta enabling customers to allow, charge, or block bot-access to their content. For it to work, bot operators such as OpenAI or Google would have to use a new protocol named Web Bot Auth and be willing to pay.
Google AI Mode Live In US: Tests Deep Search, Live Search, Personalization, Custom Charts, Shopping & Agentic. And no, Search Console data will not include breakdowns for AI Mode and AI Overviews. (Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Roundtable)
Testing Dia: The AI Browser Betting on a Future Beyond Chrome and Siri
For the last ten days, I've been using Dia, a new AI-enhanced web browser. So far, it's not going great. But first, let's look at the premise. Several players are racing to slap AI onto our everyday web use, betting that we're not ditching the whole "sitting in front of a screen to get things...
Another fun one: Cloudflare CEO warns of AI-driven “existential threat” to publishers as search traffic dwindles amid bot-fueled content skimming. (Christine Wang, Axios)
