Google Caught Serving Fake SERPs to Rank-Tracking Tools

SEO analysts found Google has been serving fake search results to third-party crawlers since mid-September, poisoning up to 34% of SERP data, likely an anti-AI-scraping measure that is breaking rank-tracking tools.

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