Google poisoning search results for AI scrapers, rank trackers, new report claims

Is Google purposefully serving up false data to AI scrapers?According to a new report from Nozzle, a search engine results page (SERP) monitoring firm, Google may be deliberately manipulating search results that are visible to rank-tracking tools and other automated services.SERPs are the pages Google displays in response to a search query. Companies often pay service providers like Nozzle to monitor these results and track how their websites rank for targeted keywords.While monitoring Google SERPs, Nozzle discovered evidence that the…