Cloudflare Redirects for AI Training: Test Canonicals Before Turning 301s On
Cloudflare can redirect verified AI training crawlers to a same-origin canonical URL. Test the first 256 KB, redirect order, logs, and rollback before enabling it.
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Google-InspectionTool User-Agent Correction: Audit Exact-Match WAF Rules
Google corrected an erroneous semicolon in its Google-InspectionTool user-agent documentation. Audit copied exact-match WAF and parser rules.
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Cloudflare Crawl-to-Referral Ratios: What the Metric Can and Cannot Prove
Cloudflare now exposes crawl-to-referral ratios by operator. The ratio measures request imbalance, not citation, training use, revenue, or causal value.
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Perplexity MCP Server 1.0 Migration: Test Citations, Streaming and Cancellation
Migrate to Perplexity MCP Server 1.0 with contract tests for citations, streaming events, progress, cancellation, configuration, and failures.
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Schema.org 30.0 Is Not a Google Rich Result Update
Schema.org 30.0 expanded the vocabulary, but a vocabulary release does not automatically create Google rich-result support. Audit the two layers separately.
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Bing’s AI-Guided Image Search: A Publisher Testing Protocol
Bing announced an opt-in AI-guided image experience on US desktop. Use this protocol to test grouping, labels, sources, and publisher representation.
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Kagi Search API Adds Related Searches and Link-Preserving Extraction
Kagi’s July API update adds related searches and preserves original links in extracted documents. Update schemas, fixtures, and evidence exports carefully.
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Microsoft Web IQ: How to Audit Evidence Objects Without Trusting Vendor Benchmarks
Microsoft Web IQ returns structured web evidence for grounded AI applications. Audit the evidence objects separately from Microsoft’s benchmark claims.
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Perplexity Gateway API vs Agent API: Which One Actually Provides Web Grounding?
Perplexity Gateway provides model access, while Agent API is the documented route for grounded answers and citations. Choose by evidence requirements.
