DemandSphere: Google is blocking AI labs from scraping SERPs, worst rank-tracking crisis in 20 years
lilyraynyc · x · 2026-10-02
SEO veteran Lily Ray amplifies DemandSphere's analysis "Google's Summer of Love". The core claim: Google does not want AI labs using its SERPs as live retrieval for answering questions, and has moved to block it at the data level.
Author Ray Grieselhuber, with 20+ years in the space, calls the stretch since early September the worst data-collection challenges he has seen, hitting rank tracking especially hard. The post also outlines DemandSphere's AI-era offerings: LLM visibility tracking, AI crawler monitoring, and citation & linked-mention tracking.
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