I n a move that sent shockwaves through the digital marketing world, Google recently implemented dramatic changes to its search engine results pages access.The tech giant's crackdown on data ...

If by telling websites the only way to avoid its AI data scraping is by not showing up in a Google search, cutting them off from that 90 percent of web traffic, that might be evidence of a monopoly.

Google cracked down on web scrapers that harvest search results data, triggering global outages at many popular rank tracking tools like Semrush that depend on providing fresh data from search ...

Google now displays convenient artificial intelligence-based answers at the top of its search pages — meaning users may never click through to the websites whose data is being used to power ...

Some, like Google, appear to use the same bots for multiple purposes, including indexing the web and scraping data for its AI tools, Panigrahi said. “It's very hard for publishers to want to ...

As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots. Accessibility statement Skip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness ...

Google’s average search click-through rate (CTR) was 8.63%, according to the report. However, the CTR for AI search engines was 0.74% and 0.33% CTR for AI chatbots.

Other options it’s reportedly weighing include forcing Google to share search data with competitors or relinquishing its default search-engine deals, like the $18 billion one it inked with Apple.

"We will get Google to provide ways to block Answer Box and AI Overview, without blocking classic search indexing, as well," Prince said. Asked if that was even possible, Prince doubled down ...