Content Prompt Injection: Defending Your Pages From Adversarial Text

The short version. In late April 2026, Google swept the public web for prompt injections — instructions planted in page content and aimed at AI readers — and sorted them into six categories. Four of the six are text the site owner wrote on their own pages: pranks, “helpful guidance” for summarisers, SEO manipulation, and […]

Citation Poisoning: How Bad Actors Manipulate AI Answers — and How to Detect It

TL;DR Citation poisoning is content published to be retrieved and repeated by an AI answer engine. It attacks not what a model believes but the eight or ten documents it reads before answering one question. The standard response — monitor, find the bad source, correct it — begins with a step that fails about half […]

The Citable Fact Page: Engineering Statements Engines Quote Verbatim

TL;DR The claim: AI systems lift whole paragraphs from pages and drop the attribution that came with them. The quotable-soundbite advice of the last two years optimises for being extracted, which is the easy half. The hard half is surviving compression with your name still attached. The rule: if deleting your name leaves the sentence […]

First-Party Data and AI Agents: Consent Is the Real Agent-Commerce Advantage

TL;DR The deadline that justified the moat was cancelled. Google kept third-party cookies in April 2025 and retired most of the Privacy Sandbox in October 2025. The customer-data land grab was sold against a deprecation that never happened. Agent commerce did not fail on customer knowledge. ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout was scaled back in March 2026 […]

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