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Cloudflare Radar’s crawl-to-refer ratio · Monitor AI crawls vs. real website traffic sent https://ilo.im/1652pb

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SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION = Improving the relationship between websites and search engines (including site search).

ANSWER ENGINE OPTIMIZATION = Improving the relationship between brands and interactive AI applications.

Learn the difference. Accept the evolution in human-computer interaction. Stop arguing over acronyms in a vain attempt to preserve "SEO" as some meaningful parcel of the universe.

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@adamengst discusses the value of using AI “Answer Engines” instead of traditional search engines to search the web in this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond.

https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2025/04/ccatp-812/

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CCATP #812 — Adam Engst on Answer Engines - Podfeet Podcasts

In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst from TidBITS talks about how traditional search engines like Google and Bing no longer provide valuable information because they surface unreliable content first. Instead of using traditional search engines, he’s been testing tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and Claude to see […]

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Yep, the chatbot just went right ahead and said it (see the last line of the article)

As Google and others also prepare chatbots, Microsoft is testing a new chatbot interface for Bing that can sometimes provide a way to sidestep news websites’ paywalls, providing glossy conversational answers that draw on media content.
https://www.wired.com/story/news-publishers-are-wary-of-the-microsoft-bing-chatbots-media-diet/
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News Publishers Are Wary of the Microsoft Bing Chatbot’s Media Diet

Microsoft’s new search interface can serve up key information from articles, removing the need to click—and potentially undermining media business models.

WIRED