@glenngabe 110% - see it all over my logs and Vercel resource usage (and costs!)
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Matt Gibbs
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Matt Gibbs
@ematt
Digital publisher / builder currently working on ******
Katılım Ocak 2009
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Already, wow -> AI and bots have officially taken over the internet, report finds
"HUMAN Security’s State of AI Traffic report found that automated traffic grew eight times faster than human traffic year-over-year." cnbc.com/2026/03/26/ai-…
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Big ruling -> Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case
"A jury found the companies negligent in their app designs, harming a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress."
"The verdict in K.G.M.’s case — one of thousands of lawsuits filed by teenagers, school districts and state attorneys general against Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snap, which owns Snapchat — was a major win for the plaintiffs. The finding validates a novel legal theory that social media sites or apps can cause personal injury. It is likely to factor into similar cases expected to go to trial this year, which could expose the internet giants to further financial damages and force changes to their products."
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The jury in LA's social media trial finds Meta and YouTube harmed a young user via addictive design features and orders them to pay her $3M; Meta will pay 70% (New York Times) nytimes.com/2026/03/25/tec… #a260325p35" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260325/p35#a26…
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SHOCKING... :) I said from the start that VR is DOA -> Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse
"Horizon Worlds struggled to find users as the general public remained skeptical of virtual reality." cnbc.com/2026/03/18/met…
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Things are moving fast, very fast -> OpenAI’s new GPT-5.4 model is a big step toward autonomous agents
"OpenAI is launching GPT-5.4, the latest version of its AI model that the company says combines advancements in reasoning, coding, and professional work involving spreadsheets, documents, and presentations. It's also OpenAI's first model with native computer use capabilities, meaning it can operate a computer on your behalf and complete tasks across different applications." theverge.com/ai-artificial-…
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@rustybrick @rmstein @SachuPatel53124 Where's the updates and improvements for the rest of us whose content they steal
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Google AI Mode adds better links to recipe sites based on feedback from the recipe blogger community - @rmstein says more to come... seroundtable.com/google-ai-mode… but as @SachuPatel53124 notes, it doesnt seem to be just for recipes..
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@glenngabe Not that I side with Google on this necessarily, given they are the biggest scraper of information on the planet, but why on earth are they allowing ChatGPT to continue doing this?
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More evidence ChatGPT is scraping Google, this time for shopping data -> "To do this we analyzed more than 40,000 carousel products and 200,000 organic products from each Google and Bing. By comparing the similarity of the products, we got a very clear picture of what was really happening behind the scenes."
"Impressively, across 43,000 highly diverse ChatGPT carousel products, 45.8% were found to have an exact title match in the corresponding Google top 40 organic shopping products for that exact shopping fan-out. For Bing, this exact match rate was just 0.48%."
"If we simply look at the percentage of strong product matches across all eight ChatGPT carousel positions, over 83% were found in the Google top 40 products, but that number drops to just under 11% for products found on Bing. This is very strong evidence that ChatGPT sources its carousel products from organic Google Shopping results."
Lily Ray 😏@lilyraynyc
“Over 83% of ChatGPT carousel products were found as strong matches in Google’s top 40 organic shopping results.” Another article showing how ChatGPT uses Google’s results - this time for Google Shopping. Great new research by Tom Wells at @peec_ai searchengineland.com/new-finding-ch…
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@glenngabe This is great for recipe site owners and Inspired Tatse has been doing amazing work in getting the word out. Now how about Google apply the same principles to all the other content they steal
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Let's call this the "Inspired Taste" update. :)
From Robby: "We've heard feedback on recipe results in AI Mode, and we’re making updates to better connect people with recipe creators on the web. Starting today, when you search for meal ideas like “easy dinners for two,” you can tap on the dish to see links to relevant recipe sites, plus a short overview of the dish to help with inspiration." @inspiredtaste
Barry Schwartz@rustybrick
Google AI Mode updates recipe results to better connect people with recipe creators searchengineland.com/google-ai-mode…
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In the latest episode of "As The AI Turns" -> AI startup Perplexity says Dow Jones badgered its bot in copyright infringement court fight
"The motion described one exchange where the user asked Perplexity about the substance of a Wall Street Journal article. When the search engine summarized it, the user asked it to provide the first paragraph, then retype two paragraphs verbatim. Perplexity said its tool declined to do so. In one case, Perplexity said the user hit the "retry" button more than 50 times, calling it "a clear effort to 'break' the system."
"Dow Jones and the Post filed their own motion on Monday, asking the judge to order Perplexity to search for and deliver documents related to how the company collects web content, and documents concerning how it attracts users and keeps them on the platform." businessinsider.com/perplexity-fil…
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@glenngabe I think this says much more about the fragility of AI and recommendations and results based on it than anything else
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Again, don't do this. Deep down you can't really believe this is the path forward... And you might be surprised who is doing this across the web. Or maybe not surprised. :)
Barry Schwartz@rustybrick
Microsoft fights AI prompt injection attacks over "Summarize with AI" buttons - that manipulates the responses AI engines give you seroundtable.com/microsoft-ai-p… hat tip @glenngabe @lilyraynyc
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$400M software company. No favicon in the SERPs. Took me 3 seconds to find the problem. 🤣🤦♂️
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How I'm starting my morning. This is the first of several I will file today. I've had enough. 🔥
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New on Search: In AI Overviews and AI Mode, groups of links will automatically appear in a pop-up as you hover over them on desktop, so you can jump right into a website to learn more. And we’ll show more descriptive and prominent link icons within the response across both desktop and mobile.
Our testing shows this new UI is more engaging, making it easier to get to great content across the web.
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Google in 2024:
- talks a lot about "Site Reputation Abuse" and creates a new manual action for it
- says the impact will eventually become algorithmic
- issues manual actions to dozens of publishers using sponsored content
Google in 2025-2026:
- still hasn't (officially) rolled out SRA algorithmically
- penalized site sections have come crawling back with content similar to what was previously penalized
- new publishers & directories have entered the space using the exact same tactics that were manually penalized in 2024
- these pages carry *enormous* weight in AI search, including AI Overviews, AI Mode and ChatGPT citations
Now: GEO citation-building largely becomes pay-to-play as publishers realize they can charge a lot of money to rank and review brands & products. Brands simply pay to be listed among the top recommended brands in the most heavily cited pages in their niche.
Answers to organic user questions in ChatGPT and other AI surfaces are heavily influenced by pay-to-play tactics and presumably, the highest bidder will win.
I'll be watching this space closely in 2026... no idea if Google will continue to care about paid link manipulation (but not sure why they would suddenly stop caring after 20+ years!)
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@glenngabe This is inevitably the future and it's great to see tools being developed to control all the scrapers and robots. Maybe we can even get to a point of blocking the ones that don't follow rules on how they can use our websites and property.
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This is a big deal. Agents can bypass the UI via WebMCP -> Chrome Team announces WebMCP is available for early preview
"As the agentic web evolves, we want to help websites play an active role in how AI agents interact with them. WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your side with increased speed, reliability, and precision."
"By defining these tools, you tell agents how and where to interact with your site, whether it's booking a flight, filing a support ticket, or navigating complex data. This direct communication channel eliminates ambiguity and allows for faster, more robust agent workflows." developer.chrome.com/blog/webmcp-epp
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@glenngabe I've been building this for all my sites which are on Next.js. It automatically creates a Markdown file of the post or main content along with other information and includes a <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" href=" style reference in the head
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Oh boy, new from Cloudflare -> "Now when AI systems request pages from any website that uses Cloudflare and has 'Markdown for Agents' enabled, they can express the preference for text/markdown in the request. Our network will automatically and efficiently convert the HTML to markdown, when possible, on the fly."
Lily Ray 😏@lilyraynyc
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Beyond hammering real pages on your site, AI crawlers are so out of control they will guess possible URLs (I see it in my 404 logs). Absurd.
WebMCP aims to solve that and will means zero excuses for crawlers running amok and wasting resources.
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@ematt There was a hiccup on our side. You should have received the welcome email now. Please, ping me if not.
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Chrome launched an early preview of WebMCP, and we're looking for feedback on use-cases, API shape, & more! 🚀
WebMCP bridges the gap between AI agents and your website, increasing the performance and reliability of agent interactions.
Join the EPP: developer.chrome.com/blog/webmcp-epp
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AI takes from publishers and gives nothing back.
WebMCP is different. Owners define exactly what AI agents can and can't do. You set the rules and the agent follows.
It's consent-based AI interaction, not scraping, and it's a generational shift for websites.
More soon 👀
Philipp Schmid@_philschmid
MCP Servers Are Coming to the Web. MCP lets AI agents call tools on backends. WebMCP brings the same idea to the frontend, letting developers expose their website's functionality as structured tools using plain JavaScript (or even HTML), no separate server needed. Instead of agents clicking through your UI, they call well-defined tools you control. A W3C proposal from Microsoft and Google, and Chrome 146 already ships an early preview behind a flag. ## How will it work? WebMCP introduces a `navigator.modelContext` API with two approaches: - Imperative API: Register tools directly in JavaScript with schemas and callbacks: ```js navigator.modelContext.registerTool({ name: "add-to-cart", description: "Add a product to the shopping cart", inputSchema: { type: "object", properties: { productId: { type: "string", description: "The product ID" }, quantity: { type: "number", description: "Number of items" } }, required: ["productId"] }, execute({ productId, quantity }) { addToCart(productId, quantity); return { content: [{ type: "text", text: "Item added!" }] }; } }); ``` - Declarative API: Let developers define tools directly in HTML using form attributes, no JavaScript required: ```html
``` This declarative approach is still under active discussion, with the goal of making WebMCP accessible to content creators without JS experience. English