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ResearchBuzz: FirehoseTechCrunch: Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping. “AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, Cloudflare published research saying it observed the AI startup ignore blocks and hide its crawling and […]<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/05/techcrunch-perplexity-accused-of-scraping-websites-that-explicitly-blocked-ai-scraping/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/05/techcrunch-perplexity-accused-of-scraping-websites-that-explicitly-blocked-ai-scraping/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseSearch Engine Land: Google still leads, but Gen Z and AI are reshaping search behavior: Survey. “Searching is no longer synonymous with ‘Googling.’ While traditional search engines still dominate for information retrieval, Americans are also turning to social media, AI tools, and ecommerce platforms, depending on what they’re searching for and who they are.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/05/google-still-leads-but-gen-z-and-ai-are-reshaping-search-behavior-survey-search-engine-land/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/05/google-still-leads-but-gen-z-and-ai-are-reshaping-search-behavior-survey-search-engine-land/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseSearch Engine Land: Danny Sullivan no longer the Google Search Liaison. “Danny Sullivan has always been a key figure in the search industry. As an independent journalist, he documented much of how search changed over the years. When he moved to Google, he was also very involved with the search community and industry. It is unclear if this new role will change all of that or not.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/04/search-engine-land-danny-sullivan-no-longer-the-google-search-liaison/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/04/search-engine-land-danny-sullivan-no-longer-the-google-search-liaison/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseTechCrunch: Apple might be building its own AI ‘answer engine’. “Apple has formed a new team to build a ChatGPT-like app, according to according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. This team — reportedly called Answers, Knowledge, and Information — is working to build an ‘answer engine’ that can respond to questions using information from across the web.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/04/techcrunch-apple-might-be-building-its-own-ai-answer-engine/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/04/techcrunch-apple-might-be-building-its-own-ai-answer-engine/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseThe Verge: Reddit wants to be a search engine now. “Reddit knows that it has valuable data from actual people — it’s already reached deals with big AI companies like OpenAI and Google to share its data with them. But Reddit is also investing in improving its own search capabilities, and in its latest note to investors, CEO Steve Huffman says that the company is ‘concentrating our resources […]<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/03/the-verge-reddit-wants-to-be-a-search-engine-now/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/03/the-verge-reddit-wants-to-be-a-search-engine-now/</a>

Carlo ZottmannUpdated with support for setting `~/.kagi_session_token`. Much better!<a href="https://norden.social/@czottmann/114960462999387730" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://norden.social/@czottmann/114960462999387730</a><a href="https://norden.social/tags/kagi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kagi</a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/cli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cli</a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/websearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#websearch</a>

Carlo ZottmannUpdated with support for setting `~/.kagi_session_token`. Much better! <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23kagi" target="_blank">#kagi</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23cli" target="_blank">#cli</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23websearch" target="_blank">#websearch</a> RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:praqlzd6u3s7hzgeqj7e77ro/post/3lvgqfyhfic2a" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:praqlzd6u3s7hzgeqj7e77ro/post/3lvgqfyhfic2a</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehosePoynter: Google backs away from search result snippets that address falsehoods. “Google decided to retire ClaimReview, a program little known outside the fact-checking world that highlighted fact checks from reputable news sources like PolitiFact, The Washington Post Fact Checker or Factcheck.org. The program was international in scale, also surfacing results from fact-checkers like Spain’s […]<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/31/poynter-google-backs-away-from-search-result-snippets-that-address-falsehoods/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/31/poynter-google-backs-away-from-search-result-snippets-that-address-falsehoods/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseArs Technica: Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search. “Google is fond of saying its mission is to ‘organize the world’s information,’ but who gets to decide what information is worthy of organization? A San Francisco tech CEO has spent the past several years attempting to remove unflattering information about himself from Google’s search index, and the nonprofit […]<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/31/ars-technica-google-tool-misused-to-scrub-tech-ceos-shady-past-from-search/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/31/ars-technica-google-tool-misused-to-scrub-tech-ceos-shady-past-from-search/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseFast Company: Exclusive: Google could be reading your ChatGPT conversations. Concerned? You should be. “Google is indexing conversations with ChatGPT that users have sent to friends, families, or colleagues—turning private exchanges intended for small groups into search results visible to millions.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/31/exclusive-google-could-be-reading-your-chatgpt-conversations-concerned-you-should-be-fast-company/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/31/exclusive-google-could-be-reading-your-chatgpt-conversations-concerned-you-should-be-fast-company/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseReuters: Russia’s Yandex rebounds from loss to post Q2 profit growth. “Russian internet giant Yandex bounced back from a first-quarter net loss to report a 34% year-on-year rise in second-quarter adjusted net profit to 30.4 billion roubles ($374.61 million), the company said on Tuesday.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/30/reuters-russias-yandex-rebounds-from-loss-to-post-q2-profit-growth/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/30/reuters-russias-yandex-rebounds-from-loss-to-post-q2-profit-growth/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseTechdirt: New Russian Law Will Criminalize Internet Searches For ‘Extremist Content’. “…now, as a sneaky amendment to a completely unrelated bill, Russia has passed a law that will criminalize searching for any content the Russian government decides is verboten.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/29/techdirt-new-russian-law-will-criminalize-internet-searches-for-extremist-content/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/29/techdirt-new-russian-law-will-criminalize-internet-searches-for-extremist-content/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseEngadget: DuckDuckGo now lets you customize the responses of its Duck.ai chatbots. “Since last June, when DuckDuckGo introduced AI Chat, you’ve been able to use chat bots like Claude directly through the browser. Now the company is making it easier to tweak the system prompts of those AI models while retaining your privacy.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/28/engadget-duckduckgo-now-lets-you-customize-the-responses-of-its-duck-ai-chatbots/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/28/engadget-duckduckgo-now-lets-you-customize-the-responses-of-its-duck-ai-chatbots/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseSearch Engine Journal: Google CTRs Drop 32% For Top Result After AI Overview Rollout. “A new study from GrowthSRC Media finds that click-through rates (CTRs) for Google’s top-ranking search result have declined from 28% to 19%. This 32% drop correlates with the expansion of AI Overviews, a feature that now appears across a wide range of search results.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/25/search-engine-journal-google-ctrs-drop-32-for-top-result-after-ai-overview-rollout/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/25/search-engine-journal-google-ctrs-drop-32-for-top-result-after-ai-overview-rollout/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseSearch Engine Journal: Pew Research Confirms Google AI Overviews Is Eroding Web Ecosystem. “Pew Research Center tracked real web browsing behavior and confirmed what many publishers and SEOs have claimed: AI Overviews does not send traffic back to websites. The results show that the damage caused by AI summaries to the web ecosystem is as bad as or worse than is commonly understood.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/23/search-engine-journal-pew-research-confirms-google-ai-overviews-is-eroding-web-ecosystem/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/23/search-engine-journal-pew-research-confirms-google-ai-overviews-is-eroding-web-ecosystem/</a>

DEVONtechnologiesTip of the day: If you were reading something online but forgot to bookmark the page, you could look at the browser’s History. But that only handles the name or URL. With <a href="https://mastodon.devontechnologies.com/tags/DEVONagent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DEVONagent</a> you can search Safari’s or <a href="https://mastodon.devontechnologies.com/tags/DEVONagent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DEVONagent</a>’s browser history more thoroughly. Here is, how that works. <a href="https://mastodon.devontechnologies.com/tags/productivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#productivity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.devontechnologies.com/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.devontechnologies.com/tags/tipoftheday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tipoftheday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.devontechnologies.com/tags/websearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#websearch</a> <a href="https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240806-search-browser-history" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240806-search-browser-history</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseEngadget: DuckDuckGo now allows you to filter out AI images in search results. “DuckDuckGo is making it easier to wade through some of the AI slop that has taken over the internet in recent months. This week, the company introduced a new filter for removing AI-generated images from search results.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/21/engadget-duckduckgo-now-allows-you-to-filter-out-ai-images-in-search-results/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/21/engadget-duckduckgo-now-allows-you-to-filter-out-ai-images-in-search-results/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseSearch Engine Journal: Google June 2025 Core Update Finished Rolling Out. “This was the second core update of the year, but we are expecting more core updates, more often, this year but so far, we only had two. This update seemed much more significant, with a lot of volatility and even a nice amount of reported partial recoveries from the old September 2023 helpful content update.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/21/search-engine-journal-google-june-2025-core-update-finished-rolling-out/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/21/search-engine-journal-google-june-2025-core-update-finished-rolling-out/</a>

Ollie 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦If using Google Search is googling, is using DuckDuckGo to search ducking?<a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/WebSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSearch</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseSearch Engine Journal: ChatGPT Recommendations Potentially Influenced By Hacked Sites. “An investigation by SEO professional James Brockbank reveals that ChatGPT may be recommending businesses based on content from hacked websites and expired domains. The findings aren’t a comprehensive study but the result of personal testing and observations. Brockbank, who serves as Managing Director at […]<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/18/search-engine-journal-chatgpt-recommendations-potentially-influenced-by-hacked-sites-2/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/18/search-engine-journal-chatgpt-recommendations-potentially-influenced-by-hacked-sites-2/</a>

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