Google Now Masks AI Overviews Anchor URLs as goto Redirects to Block Scraping
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-09-09
It turns out even anchor URLs cited in Google AI Overviews are masked as goto redirects, leaving nothing easily scrapable about the actual destination — a further obstacle for SEO and attribution tools trying to analyze which sources AI Overviews cite.
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