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fromWIRED
1 week ago

A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web

For a brief moment in October, Alejandro Quintero thought he had made it big in China. The Bogotá-based data analyst owns and manages a website that publishes articles about paranormal activities, like ghosts and aliens. The content is written in "Spanglish," he says, and was never intended for an Asian audience. But last fall, Quintero's site suddenly began receiving a large volume of visits from China and Singapore.
Data science
Artificial intelligence
fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic

Autonomous AI bots are rapidly becoming a dominant presence on the web, transforming traffic and prompting an arms race with website defenses.
Artificial intelligence
fromAmazon Web Services
2 months ago

Optimize Your Retail Business for AI Search Platforms with AWS and Botify | Amazon Web Services

AI bots increasingly act as intermediaries that discover, evaluate, and purchase products, forcing retailers to optimize content and infrastructure for rapid AI retrieval and increased bot traffic.
Marketing tech
fromExchangewire
3 months ago

DoubleVerify & Roku Bring Greater Trust and Performance to Streaming TV

DV and Roku's collaboration blocks billions of fraudulent CTV ad requests, reducing invalid traffic and protecting advertiser budgets.
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
4 months ago

Google Analytics Showing Surge In Organic Search Traffic But Search Console Flat

So I dug deeper into GA, and across all four sites I noticed a clear pattern. The spike in Google organic traffic is coming from desktop users on Windows with a screen size of 1280x720. Engagement metrics are terrible, like 2 seconds on site. It's not coming a from a specific country or just to the homepage. Traffic is spread out.
Online marketing
Online marketing
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
4 months ago

Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up October 7th and 8th

Search ranking volatility began around October 7–8, producing bot-driven, geo-misdirected traffic spikes and sudden traffic drops that appear unrelated to a core update.
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fromFast Company
8 months ago

The internet of agents is rising fast, and publishers are nowhere near ready

AI-driven bot traffic is disrupting traditional publishing revenue streams, leading to a reevaluation of access and monetization strategies.
fromNature
8 months ago

Daily briefing: NIH foreign-grant cuts could leave thousands without care worldwide

Cuts to US foreign funding will abruptly halt hundreds of crucial clinical trials overseas, jeopardizing medical advancements and compromising global health initiatives.
Science
Artificial intelligence
fromHackernoon
1 year ago

The Dead Internet is Very Real and Very Profitable | HackerNoon

The dead internet theory suggests majority of online content is now bot-generated.
AI and bots are increasingly profitable, leading to more engagement farming on social media.
Ad fraud driven by bots is projected to cost marketers significantly by 2028.
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