ResearchBuzz: FirehoseSearch Engine Land: Google’s AI Mode is citing Google more than any other site: Study. “Google’s AI Mode is increasingly citing Google itself — and often sending users back to another Google search, according to new SE Ranking research…. AI search is meant to surface the best sources on the web. If Google increasingly cites itself, you may see fewer direct links and less traffic as more […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/09/googles-ai-mode-is-citing-google-more-than-any-other-site-study-search-engine-land/
Steffen Voß#Google: Was bedeutet der "AI-Overview" für Websites? Bisher war #GoogleZero das befürchtete Szenario: Google beantwortet alles selbst und es gibt keinen Traffic mehr für Websites.
Zumindest für Produkte scheint Google inzwischen einen Weg gefunden zu haben, Fragen zusammenfassend zu beantworten, aber trotzdem die User weiterzuleiten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NFei1FbytM
The Google Update That's Changing SEO (and No One Noticed)
Rob PegoraroWeekly output: Mozilla Firefox CEO, AI crawlers vs. publishers and creators, teenage AI chatbot use, Android Live Emergency Video, PCMag’s best tech bought in 2025, World App
Somehow I’m down to the last full workweek of the year–and yet my writing and gift shopping seem to have more than a week’s worth of work remaining.
12/8/2025: Mozilla is doing a delicate dance with AI, Fast Company
I spoke with Mozilla CEO Laura Chambers at a Web Summit event for the second time this year. One thing Firefox’s management no longer needs to worry about, unlike when I met with Chambers at Web Summit Qatar in February: the threat of Google being forced to stop paying browser developers to keep its search engine as the default.
12/9/2025: AI Platforms Are Paying (Some) Big Publishers, Leaving Smaller Ones Behind, PCMag
This post began with me taking notes from a Web Summit panel featuring Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talking about that Internet infrastructure company’s Pay Per Crawl initiative to push AI providers to pay Web publishers for access to their content, then I did some follow-up reporting that included setting up Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control bot-blocking filter on this blog, and then I had to update the post the morning it was published after the European Commission opened an investigation into how Google runs its AI Overview search feature.
12/9/2025: 28% of Teens Use Chatbots Daily. You Can Probably Guess Which One They Like Best, PCMag
The latest survey by the Pew Research Center surfaced some interesting statistics about how much teenagers use AI chatbots and which ones they use the most.
12/10/2025: Need Help? Android Phones Can Now Share Live Video With 911 Dispatchers, PCMag
Google is shipping this feature a year after Apple did, but its emergency live video implementation works on far more devices than Apple’s.
12/11/2025: The Best Tech PCMag Editors Bought in 2025, PCMag
I wrote a short graf lauding the compact, quick-charging (and Wirecutter-endorsed) USB-C charger that I bought after losing the considerably bulkier model that came with my laptop.
12/13/2025: App That Verifies Your Existence Adds Encrypted Messaging, PCMag
Tools for Humanity announced an update to its World App that adds an end-to-end-encrypted chat feature and expands its cryptocurrency tools. I took advantage of this news peg to try out the app’s ability to verify a “World ID” by scanning the NFC tag on my U.S. passport; that did not go well at all for me.
12/15/2025: Updated to add the PCMag best-tech package that I forgot to check for on Sunday.
#AIChatbot #AIOverview #AISearch #ChatGPT #Firefox #GoogleZero #Mozilla #PayPerCrawl #PewResearchCenter #ToolsForHumanity #WebSummit #WorldApp #WorldID
Rob Pegoraro
AiBay🔍 Google Zero sotto indagine dell'UE - Garantire ai consumatori un mercato digitale equilibrato è la priorità! #UnioneEuropea #GoogleZero #socialmedia #artificialintelligence #technology
🔗 https://aibay.it/notizie/google-zero-sotto-indagine-dellunione-europea-2025-12-11
Film StoriesFilm websites, and why we’re running out of time to halt Google’s domination of the web
Don MartiFrom the "coping with #googleZero" department: Business Insider has added a "follow" button to staff pages. Click to get email when a reporter you follow writes something.
https://www.businessinsider.com/author/lara-oreilly
(Personally I like per-byline RSS feeds but I'll take it.) I'm sure Gmail is going to start rewriting the links to replace with AI slop, but as long as I use a normal email client I should be good for now
Lara O'Reilly - Business Insider
Lara O'Reilly is a senior correspondent who covers the digital advertising industry, marketing, and media. Her beat includes big tech companies like Apple, Alphabet, and Meta, and adtech firms, agencies, publishers, and CMOs.Lara has previously worked as a reporter and executive producer at titles including The Wall Street Journal, Digiday, Yahoo Finance, and Marketing Week. She was also previously Business Insider's senior global advertising editor between 2014 and 2017.Lara was named "Digital Journalist of the Year" by the London Press Club in 2016.Lara is a regular guest on TV and radio and has appeared on outlets such as the BBC, NPR, SiriusXM's Wharton Business Daily, and CTV Television Network. She also frequently speaks on stage at major events such as Web Summit, IFA, VivaTech, Advertising Week, and Cannes Lions.To get in touch with Lara O'Reilly, email [email protected] or contact her on Signal at @loreilly.71Check out Insider's source guide for tips on sharing information securely.Read some of Lara's work below:Big Tech workers got too used to perks. The pampering is over.Brands are so scared of culture wars and controversy that it's ripping apart the media businessGroup Black falls shortHow Google lost its wayGold bars and Google: The harebrained adtech heist that went spectacularly wrongHow Snap misread big threats from TikTok and Apple and lost its chance at becoming an advertising giantMediaMath seemed destined for a $1B fairy-tale exit. Instead, most early investors got nothing.A massive leak of Google Search documents sparks fury across the SEO industry: 'This is another level of war'
khobochkaBarely readable generated ripoffs of real journalistic work became more discoverable in Google than originals. Internet is drowning in #AI-plagiarism and visual slop, and #GoogleZero has already happened, making businesses that actually have social value to struggle for solutions.
Like Project Pitchfork sang, "Stop searching - Hell is already here" 😈
> AI Spam Is Eating the Internet, Stealing Our Work, and Destroying Discoverability
https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/
edafe.deCurate your own newspaper with RSS
“In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.”
Molly White has been using RSS for over a decade and would like you to join her in the brave new (old) world of Really Simple Syndication.
#enshittification #feed #googlezero #internet #opml #privacy #rss #syndication #technology
"Wie blicken Verlage auf Googles AI Overview?"
Interview mit Nico Wilfer
rexi#GoogleZero is here.
They've pilfered enough from enough sources, that no-one need go outside their cursed SE.
Victory! An #adrevenue goldmine, until actual #reporters are too hungry to ask questions.
Then #AI #chatbotbrowsers can just make it up. Cheaper.
Some kind of #strike may be our only recourse when #chatbot #webbrowsers and the limitless greed of #Picahai and #Alphabet, #Altman, #Zuckerberg, #Bezos, and #Musk. erase #journalism.
#Fascist carnival rides on a space dick will remain.
