Recrawl

Google, ChatGPT, AI search. Here’s the day’s news.

Every weekday at 8 a.m.: the biggest news in Google, ChatGPT and AI search, what it means for your traffic, and where every fact came from.

  • Every fact links to where it came from.
  • Anything less than confirmed says so.
  • Mistakes are corrected in the next edition.
Bar chart: in Podqi's September test, Perplexity showed a risky site in 15% of where-to-buy answers, ChatGPT in 8% and Gemini in 4%; 9% across all three
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Meme: a woman in a winter coat, phone in hand, looks at a closed shop with papered-over windows and its shutter half down, under the words: The chatbot said this was the official store
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What you’ll read

Google Search
Core updates, documentation changes, Search Console, the tests people spot in the wild.
AI answers
AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Bing: what they show, cite and link.
The AI and tech industry
The day’s biggest stories: the people, the money, the fights, the launches.
Measurement and data
Click-through, AI referrals, reporting bugs, and the studies worth trusting.
Courts and rules
Google’s antitrust cases, copyright suits, EU and UK rules, and what they change.

Who reads it

Every edition

  1. No. 1Chatbots name fake or dead shopping sites in 9% of answers
The archive

How it’s made

Every morning the day’s sources are read, each claim is checked against where it came from, and the edition is written to a house style that puts the reader first and the facts in order, then tested for clarity before it goes out.

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