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57% of sites that block GPTBot leave ChatGPT-User unrestricted
Of the 2,207 sites in the Tranco top 20,000 that block GPTBot, 1,266 leave ChatGPT-User free to fetch the same pages while answering a question.
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For every $1 EU AI companies make on Stripe, US ones make $31
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Money · Research
For every $1 EU AI companies make on Stripe, US ones make $31
Stripe posted a chart of AI payment volume with the numbers taken off. We measured it with a ruler. The US now makes $31 for every $1 in the EU, up from $23 in January 2023.
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97% of llms.txt files tracked by Ahrefs got zero traffic in May
llms.txt has been published at scale and consumed almost not at all, which makes it a closed case study in the difference between emitting a signal and being read.
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A Wikipedia-derived knowledge graph holds only about 346,000 organisations
The structured records that identify organisations run to billions of facts, but organisational coverage in them is thin next to the number of companies that exist.
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Markets · Research
Structured data appears on 44% of web domains
Structured data reaches 44% of web domains, and the most widely emitted markup declares that a website exists rather than what the organisation sells.
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