Cloudflare Web Search API Makes Crawler Rules Part of the Contract
Cloudflare’s Web Search API requires provider crawler identity, robots.txt compliance and source links. Here is what publishers and AI teams can verify.
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How to Use Generative AI for Website Content: A 30-Point Audit Checklist
Audit AI-assisted website content across purpose, evidence, original value, metadata, disclosure, accessibility, indexability and site-scale repetition.
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Google Updates Its AI Content Guidance With Quality-Rater Checks
Google’s October 1 guidance update points publishers to separate page-level and site-scale tests for effort, originality, added value and user purpose.
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Shopify’s Google AI Checkout Omits Analytics and Checkout Blocks
Shopify documents a Google-hosted checkout that omits standard pixels and many checkout blocks. Use this merchant audit to test eligibility, reporting, disclosures and revenue impact.
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Cloudflare Pay-Per-Use Separates Access Fees From Content Use
Cloudflare now offers Pay Per Crawl, Monetization Gateway and Pay Per Use. This guide maps each billable event and the audit gap in buyer-reported use.
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Google’s SAFE paper does not explain the September Search spam update
Google’s SAFE paper studies coordinated synthetic-video channel abuse. It does not connect the system to Search ranking or the active September spam rollout.
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Perplexity Photon Speeds Retrieval but Does Not Explain Citations
Perplexity’s Photon infrastructure and Fast Search mode change retrieval speed and cost. Neither explains which sources become citations, so a paired benchmark is still required.
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Google Search Console adds multimodal web reporting.
Google now separates image-involved web searches in Search Console. Here is what the new filter measures, why queries are absent, and how to compare it with Image search and AI impressions.
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Google begins September spam update with global rollout
Google says its September 2026 spam update is rolling out globally and across all languages. The rollout may take up to two weeks; Google has not identified a specific target.
