Technical Guides•
How to Scrape Grok: API, Web UI, and What Each Returns
Scrape Grok three ways: xAI's official API, DIY web-UI automation, or a managed endpoint. Compare X-grounded sources, anti-bot risk, and cost clearly.
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AI Strategy•
LLM Citations: How Each AI Engine Actually Cites Sources (Data Study)
Across six AI engines and six verticals, citation depth varies ~20×: Google AI Mode averages 15–22 sources per answer, ChatGPT/Gemini/Copilot land around 4–8, and Perplexity ranges from ~4 down to literally zero depending on the topic. Reddit sits top-2 in every vertical. AI Overview decides whether to answer at all — 98% of shopping queries, 3% of dining.
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Technical Guides•
Google Alerts API: It Doesn't Exist — Build This Instead
There is no Google Alerts API and never has been. Here's why free alerting lags breaking news, plus a full build-your-own alerts pipeline in Python.
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Technical Guides•
Content Theft: How to Find Who's Copying Your Work
We ran the exact-phrase pipeline on 18 of cloro's own articles: 27.8% had a detected non-cloro copy, a copy outranked the original 22.2% of the time, and 39 distinct republisher domains showed up. Here's the build recipe — plus how to get copies taken down.
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Monitoring•
cloro OpenClaw Integration: Monitor AI Search from Your Agent
The cloro OpenClaw plugin adds seven AI search monitoring tools to your agent — check how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini answer any prompt. Also connects over MCP.
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Comparisons•
SERP API Reliability at Scale: Uptime, Latency, Concurrency
SERP API reliability at 10k+ daily requests — uptime SLAs, latency under load, and concurrency across cloro, SerpAPI, DataForSEO, and Bright Data.
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Monitoring•
Typosquatting: How to Detect Lookalike Domains
Most typosquat coverage stops at registration counts. In cloro's July 2026 study of 400 dnstwist-style permutations across 15 brands, 66% resolved to a live site — and of the resolving squats we checked, 53% were already Google-indexed. Registration isn't reach. Indexing is.
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Technical Guides•
Google News RSS Feed: How It Works and Its Limits
The definitive reference for Google News RSS feeds: search and topic URL anatomy, geo/language params, the documented limits, and measured reliability data.
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Technical Guides•
Google News API: What Exists in 2026 and What to Use Instead
There is no official Google News API — Google retired it in 2011 and never replaced it. This guide maps what you can actually pull in 2026 (RSS, unofficial libraries, Custom Search, a scraping API), with an original freshness study and a Python tutorial.
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