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AI Agents

AI Agents

You cannot take an AI at its word – and why this is important für your GEO efforts.

In part 1 I left you with a promise: same AI, same question asked twice, opposite answers. Here is where…

Andre AlparJuly 6, 2026July 5, 2026
AI Agents

Which AI systems actually read the live web, and why it decides your GEO

I asked 16 AI assistants 50 health questions. One read 147 web pages, another read zero. That split decides your whole GEO strategy. Here is why.

Andre AlparJuly 1, 2026
AI Agents

Hidden Prompt Injection vs. Twelve AI Assistants: One Obeyed, Three Warned the User

Our investigation into prompt injection all began with a surprising inquiry from one of our clients. They had found a…

Andre AlparJune 22, 2026June 24, 2026
AI Agents

Do AI Assistants Actually Respect Your robots.txt? We Put 12 of Them to the Test.

Our investigation into AI crawler behavior all began with a surprising inquiry from one of our clients: if we block…

Andre AlparJune 20, 2026July 2, 2026
AI Agents

Do AI Assistants Actually Render Your JavaScript when Grounding? We Put It to the Test.

Our investigation into how AI assistants read web pages all began with a surprising inquiry from one of our clients.…

Andre AlparJune 9, 2026July 2, 2026
AI Agents

Grounding in Truth – What are The Surfaces that Matter to LLMs?

We are witnessing a fundamental shift in how information “surfaces” are valued. While a “website” defined the first 30 years…

Brett TabkeJanuary 29, 2026January 29, 2026
AI Agents

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health

OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Health, a health focused version of ChatGPT that can connect user personal data from services like…

Brett TabkeJanuary 8, 2026January 8, 2026
AI Agents

AI, Minors, and Liability, The Next Tech Reckoning

Regulation watch AI Hits a Brick Wall, and Kids Are the Flashpoint Two stories this week signal the end of…

Brett TabkeJanuary 5, 2026February 10, 2026
AI Agents

Differentiated Delivery: Evolving and Cloaking Your Robots.txt into an Active Bot Gatekeeper

Differentiated Delivery : Stopping the bot storms: Serve trusted crawlers like Google a permissive robots.txt while blocking rogue scrapers with dynamic robots.txt in Apache, Nginx…

Brett TabkeDecember 15, 2025January 8, 2026
AI Agents

Is GEO Real or The Great SEO Hallucination? The SEO Community Speaks!

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) has moved from theory to playing and testing ground. We were curious to see where this…

Brett TabkeNovember 15, 2025January 8, 2026
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AI Agents

AI Search Engines Rely on Less-Popular Sources: Implications for SEO & AEO

A new study from Ruhr University Bochum and Max Planck Institute shows generative AI search tools draw heavily from less-popular…

Brett TabkeOctober 29, 2025October 29, 2025
AI Agents

Yes There Are Agents – and they are Coming! Is your Site Ready?

We have seen that search gave way to AI answers, and AI answer boxes are already giving way to actions.…

Brett TabkeSeptember 8, 2025October 1, 2025

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