Search Engine Land: ChatGPT performs a search in 31% of prompts, new data reveals. “ChatGPT performs a search in nearly one-third of prompts and averages more than two searches per query, each about 5.5 words long (roughly 60% longer than the typical Google search), according to a new study from marketing agency Nectiv.” Long Google queries are good and you’re missing out if you don’t use them. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/19/search-engine-land-chatgpt-performs-a-search-in-31-of-prompts-new-data-reveals/

Calishat: QueryAnvil: AI As Search Sidekick Instead of Main Character. “I was staring in frustration at a particularly annoying page of search results when I thought to myself, ‘Man, I wish I had some way of marking which of these results are useful and which aren’t, and then have an AI analyze the different sets for language use and give me suggestions for how I can revise my search to get […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/09/queryanvil-ai-as-search-sidekick-instead-of-main-character-calishat/

Search Engine Journal: Google Search Console Fails To Report Half Of All Search Queries. “New research from ZipTie reveals an issue with Google Search Console. The study indicates that approximately 50% of search queries driving traffic to websites never appear in GSC reports. This leaves marketers with incomplete data regarding their organic search performance.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/04/search-engine-journal-google-search-console-fails-to-report-half-of-all-search-queries/

Tech Xplore: Vision-language models can’t handle queries with negation words, study shows. “In a new study appearing on the arXiv preprint server, MIT researchers have found that vision-language models are extremely likely to make such a mistake in real-world situations because they don’t understand negation—words like ‘no’ and ‘doesn’t’ that specify what is false or absent.” Exclusion […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/25/techxplore-vision-language-models-cant-handle-queries-with-negation-words-study-shows/

Tulane University: The silent force behind online echo chambers? Your Google search. “Researchers found that people often use search engines in ways that unintentionally reinforce their existing beliefs. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that even unbiased search engines can lead users into digital echo chambers—simply because of how people […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/18/tulane-university-the-silent-force-behind-online-echo-chambers-your-google-search/

Reason Magazine: Your Digital Life may not be your Property

That's the question at the heart of #HarperVersesODonnell, which is before the #SupremeCourt. New Hampshire resident Jim Harper is fighting back against the IRS after discovering he was swept up in a massive digital dragnet.
The case could redefine how the #FourthAmendment applies in the age of cloud storage—and it may determine whether your #emails, #locationhistory, #searchqueries, and #financialrecords that tech companies store on your behalf are treated as your property.

https://reason.com/2025/05/02/the-irs-says-your-digital-life-is-not-your-property/