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event2026-05-15

Google publishes official guidance for generative AI Search visibility

Google Search Central published a guide explaining generative AI Search, including RAG, query fan-out, and its position that core SEO practices remain relevant.

event2024-05-14

Google launches AI Overviews broadly in U.S. Search

Google announced expanded AI Overviews in Search, bringing generated summaries and supporting web links to a broad U.S. audience.

event2025-05-20

Google expands AI Mode and Deep Search using query fan-out

Google said AI Mode’s query fan-out can break questions into subtopics and that Deep Search can issue hundreds of searches to produce cited research.

event2026-07-01

Cloudflare separates AI traffic into Search, Agent, and Training

Cloudflare introduced a crawler-purpose taxonomy separating Search, Agent and Training traffic and announced new default controls.

event2023-05-10

Google announces Search Generative Experience (SGE)

Google announced its Search Generative Experience, using generative AI to organize and synthesize information in Search.

event2020-05-22

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is formalized in research

Researchers introduced RAG models that combine pretrained generative models with retrieved non-parametric knowledge.

event2023-02-07

Microsoft launches the new AI-powered Bing

Microsoft launched an AI-powered Bing experience combining search, conversational answers and source-linked web information.

event2022-12-01

Perplexity launches its answer engine

Perplexity states that it launched its first answer engine in December 2022, combining AI-generated answers with web sources and inline citations.

event2026-09-15

Cloudflare’s new Search / Agent / Training crawler defaults take effect

Cloudflare’s announced defaults take effect for new domains: Training and Agent traffic is blocked by default on ad-supported pages while Search remains allowed; multi-purpose crawlers are governed by their most restrictive applicable purpose.

event2025-05-07

Anthropic launches web search on the Claude API

Anthropic added web search to its API, allowing Claude-based applications to retrieve current web information and return citations.

event2011-06-02

Schema.org establishes a shared structured-data vocabulary

Bing, Google and Yahoo collaborated on Schema.org, creating a shared vocabulary for structured data on web pages.

event2012-05-16

Google launches the Knowledge Graph: “things, not strings”

Google introduced the Knowledge Graph to model real-world entities and their relationships rather than relying only on keyword matching.

event2025-03-05

Google introduces AI Mode and describes query fan-out

Google introduced experimental AI Mode and described a query fan-out approach that runs multiple related searches across subtopics and data sources.

event2021-12-16

OpenAI WebGPT demonstrates browser-based answering with citations

OpenAI published WebGPT, a GPT-3-based system that searches the web, follows links and cites sources while answering questions.

event2019-10-25

BERT improves Google Search’s language understanding

Google deployed BERT to better understand the intent and context of natural-language search queries.

event2026-09-09

Perplexity introduces Q2D-Web for large-scale retrieval evaluation in agentic RAG

Perplexity released Q2D-Web, a production-shaped retrieval benchmark built around 190 million web documents and 69,721 agent-reformulated queries across 10 languages.

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