GEO & AI search news

A Cloudflare–OpenAI pilot helped ChatGPT Search index hundreds of millions of previously unseen pages. It's a pilot, not a permanent change, but it points to where AI-search visibility is heading.

Search Console now shows every site how often its pages appear in AI Overviews and AI Mode: impressions by page, country and date, but no clicks or queries.

This week's GEO research shows AI Overviews and rival engines cite pages that rarely overlap with Google's top 10. Citeify breaks down what that means for your visibility.

Google has published formal documentation on optimizing for generative AI features in Search. It confirms that citation visibility depends on indexability and content quality, not prompt tricks.

Google now requires manual fact-checking before publishing AI-generated content, whilst rolling out a publisher payment programme for AI Mode and Gemini. What this means for your citation strategy.

Google made Gemini 3.5 Flash the default in AI Mode and rolled out agentic search features globally. Here's what that means for your content's visibility to AI.

Google expands AI Overviews globally, tests paid content compensation, and shows more external links in answers. ChatGPT search improves reasoning; citation patterns move away from listicles. What this means for your site's visibility in AI search.

Google is piloting a Search Console programme that would compensate publishers whose content shapes Gemini and AI Overviews answers. What this means for your citation strategy.

Google made Gemini 3.5 Flash the default model for AI Mode worldwide, expanded agentic search and opened Personal Intelligence to nearly 200 countries. What changed, and what to do about being cited.

A 1,885-page controlled study found adding JSON-LD produced no meaningful lift in AI citations, and live-retrieval tests show engines read visible HTML, not markup. Schema still matters — for different reasons than the industry sells.

llms.txt was GEO’s favourite quick win. Two years on: ~10% adoption, Google says it doesn’t use it, and no major engine confirms reading it. Here is the evidence — and why Citeify now scores it as informational.

Google rolled out 'Preferred Sources' in AI Overviews, made GEO reporting global, and upgraded to Gemini 3.8 Flash. ChatGPT's citation patterns shifted sharply. What matters: source selection is becoming more controllable—and more volatile.

Citeify audited citeify.ai with its own pipeline and published the result: Readiness 82, measured AI Visibility 0, Overall 41/100. Here is what the numbers showed, what we fixed the same day, and why we publish a score we have not finished earning.

The GEO industry is full of promised traffic lifts and revenue projections that no one can measure. Citeify’s reports prohibit them by written rule. Here is why that is a feature, not a hedge.

AI engines give different answers to the same question on different runs — so a single screenshot proves nothing. How Citeify measures AI visibility with repeated sampling, majority voting and a frozen question set.