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AI search & visibility: what monitored sources reported
Answer. 22 distinct stories on ai search & visibility were indexed from DABYTE's monitored sources over the last 30 days, through 2026-09-12. 0 of them were reported by more than one outlet — a rough signal of significance. None of the 20 brands in the DABYTE AI Visibility Index were named in this coverage.
Sources polled hourly · rolling 30-day window · headlines and short excerpts only, with links to the original reporting · how this index works
Indexed stories
Cross-source deduplicated: the same story from several outlets is merged into one entry listing every outlet that covered it. Full articles stay with the publisher — follow the link to read them.
- Usenet rewind archive search engine
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://www.usenet-rewind.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668777 Points: 111 # Comments: 33 - google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://www.autom.dev/blog/google-search-goto-links Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668386 Points: 631 # Comments… - OpenAI Agents API
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/overview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649213 Points… - Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://www.jamescherti.com/emacs-consult-speed-async-searche-grep-ripgrep-fd-find/ Comments URL… - ISAR Aerospace 5 Sept Mission Onward and Upward
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://isaraerospace.com/mission-updates-overview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49579956 Points: 33 # Comments: 4 - Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://productrise.app/blog/google-ai-mode-prefers-more-expensive-products Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563386… - Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554520 Points: 656 # Comments… - Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536375… - A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://hausresearch.com/reports/perplexity-citation-audit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536201 Points: 62 #… - Keenable SELECT: an agent that searches the web in SQL
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://keenableai.github.io/select-showcase/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523473 Points: 37 # Comments: 11 - Your files stay put: Perplexity’s hybrid AI keeps confidential data off the cloud
· venturebeatPerplexity today launched hybrid compute for its agentic platform, Computer , a system that lets a single AI agent split its work between frontier… - Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M
· techcrunchThe three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million round. - A Citation to Asimov
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://www.bookandsword.com/2026/08/25/a-citation-to-asimov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449458 Points: 30 #… - Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs
· venturebeatPerplexity is launching Portable Computer today, a version of its agentic "Computer" platform that runs entirely on hardware users already own… - Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents
· techcrunchNow exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents. - I Just Want to Search
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://www.0xsid.com/blog/just-want-to-search Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390099 Points: 27 # Comments: 5 - What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://blog.8ball.space/what-we-lost-when-search/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388446 Points: 64 # Comments: 37 - Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://kagi.com/changelog#11296 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154 Points: 1128 # Comments: 363 - Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses
· techcrunchGoogle is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially… - Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools
· techcrunchThe launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying… - Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust
· hackernewsArticle URL: https://github.com/RyanCodrai/turbovec Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349898 Points: 276 # Comments: 32 - Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India
· techcrunchPerplexity's India revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users, even as downloads declined.
Machine access
/api/topics/ai-search.json— this topic as JSON (stories, sources, matched brands)/api/topics.json— all topics with counts/api/aiv.json— the AI Visibility Index these brand tags link back to