Google launched shared conversations in Google Bard about a week ago and forgot to ensure search engines can’t index the results. The robots.txt had(s) nothing in it to block bard.google.com/share from being indexed and since Google Search likes to index things, it indexed those public conversations. Here is a screenshot of what I saw yesterday … Read more
Google will soon block Bard’s shared conversations from appearing in Google Search. Google Bard recently came out with shared conversations that let users publicly share the chats they had with Bard. Soon after Google Search started to discover those URLs, crawl them, and index them. The issue. Gagan Ghotra posted on X a screenshot showing … Read more
Bing decided not to wait for the alternative approach to a robots.txt method for blocking AI tools from using your content and decided to go with what is out there now, meta tag approaches. Bing will continue to work with the rest of the AI community to come up with solutions but for now, since … Read more
Introduction The Content Recommendations add-on for Optimizely CMS dynamically recommends content from your site tailored to the interests of each user. Installing the NuGet Package will give you access to Optimizely’s Content Recommendations Block which uses Mustache Templating to render the data from the Content Recommendations API on a page. Although Mustache Templates provide a … Read more
Google’s Gary Illyes gave some maybe unsanctioned ways to block portions or part of your content on a specific page. So let’s say you want a section or paragraph or two not to be seen by Google Search, Gary provided some ways to make sure search engines don’t see it. Keep in mind, Google has … Read more
I should start by saying this is super dangerous and you probably should not do this unless you really know what you are doing and why you are doing it. But John Mueller of Google said on Twitter, “The best way to block the traffic from search for specific URLs completely is to disable DNS … Read more
Google Search Advocate John Mueller suggests three ways to prevent potentially inaccurate AI chatbot content from being indexed. Website owners should be mindful of potential issues caused by AI chatbots that could impact the visibility and search presence of their websites. Mueller suggests the use of a ‘robotted iframe’, ‘robotted JavaScript file/resource’, or ‘data-nosnippet’ to … Read more
In the past few days, Google Search has dropped over half of the indexed URLs from Twitter from the Google Search index. This was done after Twitter added a “feature” on Friday afternoon only to display tweets to signed-in and registered users; also, the throttling going on at Twitter right now is probably not helping. … Read more
Google’s John Mueller went on a bit of a rant on Reddit on the topic of having your internal search result pages crawlable and indexable. As you know, in general, Google does not want to index search results but John said, this is especially true for search result pages that have no results found. In … Read more
Since ChatGPT launched, the debate around the “fair use” of public website content for AI training – and whether this is plagiarism – has raged. That debate has only gotten louder and more intense since OpenAI announced ChatGPT plugins on March 23. One of OpenAI’s plugins is an official ChatGPT-hosted web browser. It will allow … Read more
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