A rank tracker says Google has been slipping wrong results to scraping tools since September, and Google has not said a word.

Schwartz reports that rank tracking tools are still struggling weeks after Google began blocking scrapers in September. He relays Derek Perkins of Nozzle describing three moves by Google: wide blocking of residential proxy networks, many more captchas, and "injecting bad data into suspect SERPs". Nozzle's piece, titled "Poisoned Google SERPs", is quoted as saying "Since September 2026, Google has been poisoning the SERPs it serves rank trackers" and "8.0% of SERPs came back poisoned", with the summary lines "The page looks normal. The results don't." and "It passes within days". Sistrix, DataForSEO, SE Ranking, Advanced Web Ranking and Morningscore have all posted notices. Schwartz's own reading: "I don't think Google is taking these efforts to block the tools SEOs use but rather to go after AI bots and SerpApi." Limits: no Google statement, the 8.0% figure is one vendor's and its method was not read, and the article does not say whether AI Overviews or SerpApi's results are affected.

New since yesterday: the delay fell to 44 hours by 11am Eastern on 11 October ("down to 44"), and a 12 October update quotes "seems back to normal this morning". Google still has not commented, and the status dashboard lists no October incident.

No change. ChatGPT's newest note is still the 9 October coding-app entry. Perplexity's changelog has the same October entries and nothing on Sonar. Anthropic's table still shows `claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929` retiring 30 November and `claude-haiku-4-5-20251001` as Active with "Not sooner than October 15, 2026", three days away. The engine's `main` is still `06233ce` with `gpt-5.1`, `sonar` and `claude-sonnet-4-5` in `src/adapters.ts` and `claude-haiku-4-5` in `src/extract.ts` (checked today).