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Wed Sep 09Official announcement / documentationTier A

Q2D-Web: Evaluating First-Stage Retrievers at Scale

Perplexity

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Tue Sep 08Original research paperTier A

Q2D-Web: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Retrieval in Agentic RAG Systems

arXiv

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Tue Sep 01Official announcement / documentationTier A

Perplexity retrospective noting first answer-engine launch

Perplexity

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Fri Aug 28Official announcement / documentationTier A

BotBase for Operators: A clearer path to joining Cloudflare's directory of bots and agents

Cloudflare

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Wed Jul 01Official announcement / documentationTier A

Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers

Cloudflare

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Fri May 15Official announcement / documentationTier A

Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search

Google Search Central

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Mon Nov 24Official announcement / documentationTier A

Introducing shopping research in ChatGPT

OpenAI

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Tue May 20Official announcement / documentationTier A

AI in Search: Going beyond information to intelligence

Google

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Wed May 07Official announcement / documentationTier A

Introducing web search on the Anthropic API

Anthropic

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Wed Mar 05Official announcement / documentationTier A

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

Google

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Thu Oct 31Official announcement / documentationTier A

Introducing ChatGPT search

OpenAI

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Mon Sep 23Official announcement / documentationTier A

Start auditing and controlling the AI models accessing your content

Cloudflare

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Tue Sep 03Standard / standards proposalTier A

The /llms.txt file

llms-txt / Jeremy Howard

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Tue May 14Official announcement / documentationTier A

Generative AI in Search: Let Google do the searching for you

Google

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Thu Nov 16Original research paperTier A

GEO: Generative Engine Optimization

arXiv

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Fri May 12Official announcement / documentationTier A

ChatGPT release notes: Web browsing and Plugins

OpenAI

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Wed May 10Official announcement / documentationTier A

Supercharging Search with generative AI

Google

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Tue Feb 07Official announcement / documentationTier A

Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge

Microsoft

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Thu Dec 16Original research paperTier A

WebGPT: Improving the factual accuracy of language models through web browsing

OpenAI

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Fri May 22Original research paperTier A

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks

arXiv / Meta AI researchers

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Fri Oct 25Official announcement / documentationTier A

Understanding searches better than ever before

Google

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Wed May 18Official announcement / documentationTier A

I/O: Building the next evolution of Google

Google

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Wed May 16Official announcement / documentationTier A

Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings

Google

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Thu Jun 02Official announcement / documentationTier A

Schema.org launch collaboration

Schema.org

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