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Google confirmed a logging bug in Search Console's Generative AI in Search performance report causing artificially low impression counts since August 13.
Google's research demonstrates that large language models struggle to recall facts when questions reverse the typical subject/object entity order.
Apple has expanded Applebot's infrastructure with over 4,600 new IP addresses to support crawling for Siri and Apple Intelligence.
SEOFOMO News reports that OpenAI's documentation suggests ChatGPT's Fetch Bot may not be bound by robots.txt restrictions, despite evidence of it accessing blocked sites.
Google has rolled out its August 2026 spam update globally across all languages, with a multi-day rollout window.
Google's Googlebot declares itself as coming from Mountain View, California, but actually crawls from various data centers worldwide depending on regional needs.
Google experienced a notable ranking volatility spike over August 12–13, while OpenAI began hiding ChatGPT source links behind additional clicks.
Misconfigured Cloudflare and CDN settings can accidentally block Google crawlers, causing sudden ranking drops and traffic loss.
Google Search Console's URL inspection tool may display canonicals pointing to spammy sites, warranting closer review of canonical selections.
Google's Search Console sometimes designates spammy sites as the canonical URL for legitimate domains, though Google says the selection typically resolves within weeks.
Google will support the HTTP QUERY method once the broader web ecosystem adopts it, per Gary Illyes.