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Reported notes on AI search, business identity, and verification. When we reference another publisher, we name them and link the original.
SeekinWeb AI Visibility
5 October 2026 — A WordPress plugin by draxork separates being readable by an AI crawler from being named by an assistant. The score is the plugin's. It is not a public identity record.
Litigation Trends to Watch: AI-Related Fraud, EEOC Enforcement and Roller Coaster Injuries Spark Lawsuits
4 October 2026 — Mike Neighbors’ 2 October 2026 Law.com column flags AI-related fraud, EEOC enforcement, and roller-coaster injury suits. Only the AI-fraud deck was readable without a subscription.
7 AI search myths busted by data
3 October 2026 — Rob Tindula’s 1 October 2026 MarTech column walks seven AI-search myths against published data, including a finding that llms.txt changed nothing measurable on most of ten sites.
A Developer's Guide to Making Code Understandable to Google and AI
2 October 2026 — Francesco Aliatis at Marketpath recommends JSON-LD because Google calls it clean and separate from the design. The post is a vendor guide, and it says so.
EU Digital Product Passport: Requirements Guide
1 October 2026 — Adherent’s gated guide calls the EU Digital Product Passport a digital identity card for a product’s environmental data across its life. The full paper is not public on the page.
Prometeo Expands Account Verification Into a Global Trust Layer With 110 Country Coverage
30 September 2026 — Businesswire carried Prometeo’s announcement of a wider account-verification product, with 110-country coverage and new risk intelligence in the headline. That is a commercial check, not a public business file.
Google AI Mode ads are a feed, not a verified name
3 September 2026 — Search Engine Journal describes ads inside Google AI Mode that are built from a Merchant Center feed. Paid placement is not a public identity file.
GBG Reach checks the address an AI agent is holding
3 September 2026 — Security Brief reports GBG launched Reach, a product that scores address data for AI agents. That is operational data for a bot. It is not a public file for the company running the bot.
Companies House is chasing unverified directors
3 September 2026 — ICAEW says Companies House is emailing unverified directors and persons of significant control. That government ID check is not a public file a small firm can point an answer engine at.
Dun & Bradstreet wires its commercial graph into Perplexity
3 September 2026 — HPCwire reports Dun & Bradstreet is feeding its commercial graph into Perplexity. A paid enterprise graph is not a public file a small firm can point to.
Forbes column: only a thin set of brands show up everywhere
2 September 2026 — A Quora column on Forbes tracked 1,200-plus brands across ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Mode and AI Overviews. Only 36 held a top-100 mention on every platform in every month studied.
Trust in AI answers still starts with a resolvable company
1 September 2026 — MarTech’s trust column is being read as a visibility brief. The prior question is whether the model can tell two firms apart.
Pew: about one in ten pages now show signs of AI authorship
31 August 2026 — Search Engine Journal covers Pew research finding signs of AI authorship on a share of the live web, including pages dated after ChatGPT.
Forbes: AI is making business impersonation cheaper
28 August 2026 — Joe McKendrick in Forbes describes AI-assisted scams against businesses. Cheap fakes raise the value of a dated public identity.
Google and Yelp still feed local AI citations, BrightLocal finds
28 August 2026 — BrightLocal finds Google Business Profile and Yelp still supply a large share of the pages local AI answers lean on.