AuthGR: What Authority-Aware Generative Retrieval Changes
An ACL 2026 industry paper connects authority-aware retrieval with stronger ranking judgments and higher click behavior inside a commercial search system.
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What Perplexity’s Real-World Mistakes Experiment Actually Proved
Perplexity reduced tool failures with selected correction traces, but the strongest online comparison did not show a significant satisfaction gain.
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Turn Cloudflare Worker Previews Into an SEO Release Gate
Use isolated Worker branch previews to catch canonical, robots, redirect, schema and rendered-content failures before production.
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GPT-6 Prompt Caching: The Real Cost Math for AI Search Audits
Prompt caching can materially reduce repeated AI-search evaluation costs, but only when the shared prefix survives tool, schema and configuration changes.
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Top-500 Retrieval Still Missed Useful Evidence
Re:CAP recovered relevant documents missed by flat retrieval, including gaps left by a 1,500-candidate ensemble. That changes how retrieval coverage should be audited.
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Baidu and Google Gave Similar AI Answers From Different Source Webs
A 500-query bilingual study found high answer similarity but very low cited-host overlap between Baidu and Google AI overviews.
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13.4 Billion Web Questions Show FAQ Frequency Is Not Search Demand
The most repeated questions on the web increasingly come from templates and commerce pages. Publishers need behavioral demand evidence before creating another FAQ.
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Claude 5.5 Migration: API Changes and Sonnet 4.5 Retirement
Claude 5.5 changes thinking and tool-use behavior, while Sonnet 4.5 retires on November 30, 2026. Use this migration calendar to inventory, test, canary and remove the old model ID.
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Anthropic Traced 8,913 AI-Written Articles to 70 Fake News Sites
Anthropic documented a coordinated network of fabricated news sites, paired social accounts and rigid publishing constraints. The useful lesson is the network footprint, not a guess about whether one paragraph sounds AI-written.
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