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  1. 001Hacker NewsOCT · 08English

    Bidding on competitor names when buyers ask agents

    Steel, a browser infrastructure company for AI agents, analyzed the cost of competitor bidding on their brand name in Google Ads. They found the practice economically inefficient for developer tools, with low conversion rates and high costs per acquisition, and discovered their analytics significantly undercount AI agent traffic compared to human browser visits.

    By Nikola Balić; Nikola Balic