AI News/Wire summary
Nozzle says Google serves misleading results to rank trackers and AI scrapers
Key points
- Nozzle reports non-standard SERPs began September 20, peaking at 25% of results, then 5% to 11% daily since October 1.
- Poisoned SERPs retain only 20.7% of websites across repeated searches, versus 88.5% for normal results.
- Poisoned pages show more Facebook, Reddit and Quora results, and fewer AI Overviews, People Also Search and related searches.
Why it matters for marketers: Rank tracking data may show false volatility, so marketers should verify unexpected ranking swings before acting on them.
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