Coywolfcoywolf@coywolf.social
Oct 20, 2026, 2:32 PMNew Nozzle research shows Google has been serving rank trackers normal-looking SERPs with the results swapped out, and 8.4% of SERPs have come back poisoned since September 13.
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Marin T. Kaelmarintkael@mastodon.socialOct 21, 2026, 7:47 AMThat hits AI Overview tracking as well. Most of those tools scrape the same results page, so a poisoned SERP poisons their citation counts too, and nobody downstream would notice unless they compare against a logged in manual check now and then.