Google Is Testing New Bot Authorization Standard

Google is testing an advanced cryptographic protocol for verifying bot traffic that may make it easier to isolate unwanted ...

Web Bot Auth, Google’s new experimental method to validate authentic bots

This is just a limited test now for some AI agents hosted on Google's infrastructure but it may roll out more widely sometime ...
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Google Doesn’t Expect Online Bot Traffic To Double By Mid-July (Despite What Its Help Center Says)

Oh, the confusion a poorly worded Google Help Center update can bring. A recent update to the Google DV360 Help Center had some advertisers panicking that invalid impressions served through Google’s ...
AOL

Google debuts subscription Gemini AI bot, as Microsoft rivalry heats up

Google (GOOG, GOOGL) is bringing big changes to its generative AI bot Bard, rebranding the software as Gemini to match the underlying AI model that powers it and announcing a new premium version for ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google: Sometimes Bot Protection Services Serve Noindex Directive

Did you know that sometimes those bot protection services will serve Google and other search engines noindex directives? Google's John Mueller said this on X, saying, "Sometimes there's bot-protection ...
Washington Examiner

Google’s AI bot accused of left-wing bias

Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot is being accused of left-wing bias over peculiarities in answers to different questions. Gemini’s image generator was taken offline last week after ...