FROM THE EDITOR
Why AI Visibility Journal exists
AI systems now introduce brands to millions of people. Almost no one can say, with evidence, how they decide what to say. We intend to find out, and to show our work.
Crawling & controls News
Bing adds a separate AI grounding control for publishers, with a March 2027 deadline
Microsoft will let publishers set AI training and AI grounding preferences separately. Sites relying on NoArchive or NoCache must act by March 1, 2027, to keep their restrictions.
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Crawling & controls
Google, OpenAI and Microsoft back a shared robots.txt signal for AI training
1 shared robots.txt token for AI training preferences across providers
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Research
Where you ask changes which sources OpenAI and Gemini API models cite, a preprint finds
8% of near-me businesses shared between two US cities in the preprint
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AI search
OpenAI reports 185.6 million average monthly EU recipients for ChatGPT search in its DSA disclosure
185.6M average monthly active recipients of ChatGPT search in the EU (DSA)
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AI search
Google opens a preview platform for brands to plug their apps into Search and Gemini
Preview Connected Apps Platform for Search and the Gemini app
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Ads
Google expands ads in AI Mode to Australia and nine other countries, and adds ads on follow-up questions in the US
10 countries added to ads in AI Mode; multiturn ads in the US
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Crawling & controls
AI crawler directory: who crawls your site for AI, and how to control it
Directory AI crawler tokens, purposes and robots.txt rules
Numbers this week
- Mar 1, 2027deadline for NoArchive/NoCache sites to set new Bing AI preferences
- 1shared robots.txt token for AI training preferences across providers
- 8%of near-me businesses shared between two US cities in the preprint
- 185.6Maverage monthly active recipients of ChatGPT search in the EU (DSA)
- PreviewConnected Apps Platform for Search and the Gemini app
- 10 countriesadded to ads in AI Mode; multiturn ads in the US
Guides
How AI search works, and what to do about it.
How AI Search Works
How AI systems retrieve, select and cite information.
Measurement
How to measure AI visibility without fooling yourself.
Strategy
Evidence-based ways to earn accurate visibility.
Technical
Crawlers, structured data and the plumbing AI systems rely on.
Business, Ethics & Policy
Budgets, attribution, risk, regulation and responsibility.
Markets & Languages
How AI visibility differs across the US, UK, EU and Australia.
How we work
- Evidence over opinion. We separate what we measured from what we think. Editorial standards →
- Methods in the open. Every study shows how it was done. Methodology →
- Independent by design. No paid rankings. No paid coverage. Ethics & independence →
About AVJ. AI Visibility Journal is an editorially independent publication researching how AI systems find, describe and cite brands. We publish original research with open methods and data, and we never sell rankings or coverage. More about us →