With AI Overviews taking over search results, brands must stop optimizing purely for clicks and aim for answer inclusion, model visibility and citation readiness.

As the open web prepares to enter a critical new phase in 2026, one theme unites voices across the industry: quality will ...

There’s an accelerating cat-and-mouse game between web publishers and AI crawlers, and we all stand to lose. We often take the internet for granted. It’s an ocean of information at our fingertips—and ...

For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from ...

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott speaks to reporters and analysts ahead of the company’s Build developer conference, outlining the company’s vision for the “agentic web.” (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) ...

Google privately told a federal court that “the open web is already in rapid decline,” a sharp reversal from its public claims that search traffic is booming — and a stunning admission as the Justice ...

Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed their Git repository service, repeatedly causing instability and ...

AI web-crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many software developers believe. Some devs have started fighting back in ingenuous, often humorous ways. While any website might be targeted ...

If a powerful technology poses significant risks to business and society, should it ever be freely available? Many argue that AI falls into this category. Some even warn of existential threats. Since ...

This week Hollywood released details of a new film about Sam Altman and the rise of OpenAI, whose launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 has brought high drama to the tech world. One of the most important ...

In her latest column for ExchangeWire, Shirley Marschall discusses whether rumours of the death of the open web have been greatly exaggerated, or whether the prevailing tides can indeed be turned.