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AI answer boxes are reportedly wiping out a majority of organic search traffic for some blog categories in 2026 — while others have barely lost a visitor, and the split comes down to one thing

A version of this story gets repeated in every publishing group chat I’m part of, and it goes something like this: AI answer boxes are eating th…

Sleep science says the pilot who nodded off for 28 minutes at cruising altitude wasn't being careless — he was legally "rested" by every rule on the books, and fell asleep anyway, because duty-time regulations count hours off, not hours actually spent recovering

On January 25, 2024, a Batik Air Airbus A320 leveled off at 36,000 feet on a domestic route from Kendari to Jakarta, carrying 153 passengers and…

YouTube's first monetization change since 2018 skips the bad-actors framing and lands squarely on the roughly 85,000 channels that made the old bar work for them

In January 2018, YouTube set the bar for monetization at 4,000 watch hours and 1,000 subscribers, and said plainly why: 99 percent of the channe…

A 2005 warning that the blogging world ignored — and is still paying for

Editor’s note (March 2026): This article is part of Blog Herald’s editorial archive. Originally published in 2005, it has been reviewed and upda…