Gen Z Preference For TikTok Over Google Drops 50%, Data Shows
More U.S. consumers in an Adobe Express survey said they’ve used TikTok for search than in the company’s 2024 survey. But the platform’s position...
Anthropic’s Claude Bots Make Robots.txt Decisions More Granular
Anthropic updated its crawler documentation this week with a formal breakdown of its three web crawlers and their individual purposes.
The page now lists ClaudeBot...
Early Data Shows Fewer Domains In US
NewzDash published an analysis comparing Discover visibility before and after Google’s February 2026 Discover core update, using panel data from millions of US users...
SerpApi Challenges Google’s Right To Sue Over SERP Scraping
SerpApi filed a motion to dismiss Google’s federal lawsuit, two months after Google sued the company under the DMCA for allegedly bypassing its SearchGuard...
‘Summarize With AI’ Buttons Used To Poison AI Recommendations
Microsoft’s Defender Security Research Team published research describing what it calls “AI Recommendation Poisoning.” The technique involves businesses hiding prompt-injection instructions within website buttons...
