Articles — Kitadev

Engineering dispatches and technical notes from Kitadev.

The ChatGPT dip was a missing label. The label came back.

A drop in the ChatGPT row can be a missing label. Check direct traffic on the same pages before you rewrite the site.

Google is putting more links inside its AI answers. The page a buyer opens has to say what you sell, and how to start.

A crawler found hundreds of millions of new pages. Yours still has to say what you sell, or the visit has nowhere to land.

Bing now lists the searches where its AI cites another site and not yours. Use that list as a brief, not as a rank.

Chrome is testing a score for clicks that never reload the page. The number in Search Console today has not changed.

Google will run a private Android app on your own phone. Your buyers still cannot find it or install it.

Google's longest spam update of 2026 is finished. Open Search Console before you rebuild the site from a rank chart.

Google called a made-up expert face a low-quality signal. A real name on the work is a different thing.

A hidden mark can show that a model helped write a paragraph. It does not show that the paragraph is true.

Shopify Canvas can draft a store by chat. The pages, the price, and who owns the code still have to be written down first.