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Key Takeaways: Ray analyzed websites (US) that were hit by an unconfirmed Google Update in January and found: Dropping in Google SEO also negatively impacted their LLM Visibility The data shows a broad decline in both SEO traffic & AI search citations: every subfolder in the study (11 of 11) experienced a drop in both Google organic traffic and total AI search citations , with a significant average citation decline of -22.5% . Google’s AI Mode (-23.8%) and ChatGPT (-27.8%)

Key Takeaways: Landwehr analyzed AI Search responses for pnewind(.)com - a former wind energy company website that has been misused by Casino Affiliates using Google cloaking and access blocking His findings suggest: OpenAI is scraping Google Grok is somehow using Google Claude is using Brave Search Perplexity might use Brave Search (but states that it uses its own index) Konitzny points out that Grok is using Brave for image search - based on the code run in Chrome. Ray con

Key Takeaways : Grok also does a Query Fan-Out - rewriting a prompt into searches Grok uses Brave Search instead of Google or Bing Source...