https://dataswap.io/blog Technical notes on search data, AI answer engines and the plumbing between them. en Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://dataswap.io/blog/ai-crawlers-read-html-not-javascript https://dataswap.io/blog/ai-crawlers-read-html-not-javascript Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Before you measure whether an AI assistant cites you, check whether it can read you at all. The test is one curl command, and the result is often uncomfortable. ai-visibility crawling geo https://dataswap.io/blog/grounding-llm-agents-with-search-data https://dataswap.io/blog/grounding-llm-agents-with-search-data Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Search results are the wrong shape for a prompt. How to turn a SERP into grounding context an agent can use: dedupe, rerank, budget tokens, keep citations. grounding rag llm-agents search-api context-window https://dataswap.io/blog/mcp-search-tools-for-agents https://dataswap.io/blog/mcp-search-tools-for-agents Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why mirroring your REST API into MCP makes agents worse, and the rules that fix it: curated tool-belts, routing descriptions, compact returns, bounded output. mcp model-context-protocol agents tool-design claude cursor https://dataswap.io/blog/product-matching-at-scale https://dataswap.io/blog/product-matching-at-scale Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Matching offers across retailers is an identifier problem before it is a model problem. Blocking, attribute normalisation, and why four verdicts beat true/false. product-matching ecommerce entity-resolution pricing digital-shelf https://dataswap.io/blog/rank-tracking-by-api https://dataswap.io/blog/rank-tracking-by-api Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Build rank tracking that reports something true: pin location and device, diff sets instead of averaging positions, and know why keyword volumes never agree. rank-tracking serp-api seo keyword-volume monitoring https://dataswap.io/blog/read-google-ai-overviews-programmatically https://dataswap.io/blog/read-google-ai-overviews-programmatically Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Google ships no official AI Overview API. What the block is, how it differs from AI Mode, how to pull it with its citations, and why one sample tells you nothing. ai-overview ai-mode serp-api google citations https://dataswap.io/blog/scraping-vs-licensed-data https://dataswap.io/blog/scraping-vs-licensed-data Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT CFAA, hiQ, the EU TDM opt-out, the database right and GDPR Article 14 — where web data sourcing is risky, and what a provenance receipt can and cannot prove. compliance gdpr web-scraping tdm data-sourcing provenance https://dataswap.io/blog/what-is-geo-and-how-to-measure-it https://dataswap.io/blog/what-is-geo-and-how-to-measure-it Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Generative engine optimisation has no rank to track. A measurement design that survives non-determinism: share of answer, denominators, sample size, consensus. geo ai-visibility share-of-answer measurement llm