Our own research with open data, and news on how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and other AI assistants find and read websites.
On November 2, 2026, The New York Times sued Brave. The Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed a similar suit the same day. The publishers allege that Brave copied their articles with a bot that has no…
Read →OpenAI says ChatGPT search has reached about 20% of Google's query volume. The figure came from Adam Fry, ChatGPT's consumer product lead. It's a big claim, but the company counted it itself.
Read →Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic have announced support for a shared robots.txt rule. It opts your site out of AI training and doesn't affect regular search. Not everyone honors it yet, so change your robots.txt…
Read →We checked 100 well-known online services the way AI crawlers see them. 14 of them didn't serve a single page to our checker — openai.com among them. Yet 12 of those 14 allow AI bots in robots.txt: the real gatekeeper…
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