As of 5 October 2026.
This dossier collects crawlers, search and publishers. Each entry is one sentence from the original report. Where that report stays indexed, the link points to it.
Timeline
- 6 July 2026. Cloudflare introduces differentiated AI bot controls by purpose: Search, Agent, and Training can now be controlled separately.
- 17 July 2026. Google: Media supervision classifies AI search as content provider. The ZAK issued first decisions against Google and Perplexity – their AI answers now count as content under media law.
- 31 August 2026. NewsGuard Test: AI Chatbots Expose 75 Percent Of Propaganda. An NPR and NewsGuard investigation shows: chatbots debunk disinformation from Russia, China, and Iran more often than search engines.
- 7 September 2026. Google shows AI answers less frequently in elections. A study by AlgorithmWatch on three German state elections shows Google's AI answers fluctuate sharply and often read as non-neutral.
- 16 September 2026. Cloudflare separates AI training from search engine access. A new accountable status allows website operators to refuse AI training without disappearing from Google and Bing search results.
What this means for companies in Germany
For site operators, the linked reports cover controls and labelling. Entries without a link replace the separate report.
