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Research shows ChatGPT writes brand names into its own search queries before retrieving web pages. Brands named in pre-search queries have a 33x higher chance of appearing in final answers.
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Google made Gemini 3.7 Flash available as a selectable model in AI Mode for Pro and Ultra subscribers, one day after the model's initial release for coding and agents.
TollBit's H1 2026 report shows ChatGPT-User is the most-blocked AI page-fetcher yet reaches disallowed pages on roughly half of EU sites that listed it. OpenAI documentation says robots.txt rules may not apply because a person initiated the request.
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