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The Internet Experiment

Blogging Titan research series

We ran it ourselves, on our own site or our own accounts, and logged every step with dates.

The standard for this series. Every experiment states its start and end dates, what we changed, what we measured and how, and publishes the log. If the result is a single run on a single site, we say so in the first paragraph.

In this series

  1. The Citation Lottery, 87 Days Later: 65% of July’s AI Overview Citations Are GonePublished 19 October 2026
  2. Cloudflare let ChatGPT back in on 15 September. On our open blog, its fetches did not movePublished 30 September 2026
  3. We Logged Every AI Crawler on a Small Blog for 37 DaysPublished 16 September 2026
  4. We Asked Google the Same Question Three Ways. Only 14% of Its Sources Survived.Published 31 August 2026
  5. The Citation Lottery: We Pulled the Same 20 AI Overviews Three Times in One Hour. Three Rewrote Their Sources.Published 24 July 2026
  6. We Linked to Our Best Page 25 Times. The Live HTML Showed Zero of Them.Published 17 July 2026
  7. I Mapped All 1,403 Internal Links on My Blog. One in Five Takes a Redirect Detour.Published 1 July 2026
  8. I Ran the Signs of AI Writing Checklist on All 176 of My Own Posts. Here Is the Tally.Published 1 July 2026

The other five series

The Website Autopsy · The AI Reality Check · Hidden Economics of the Internet · The Internet Investigation · The Next Internet

Every series sits inside Original Research, alongside our named findings, how we test and our editorial policy.