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Last updated: 07 November 2026, 05:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Brave Sells Its Search Index To AI, And Your Website Is Probably In It
Brave sells its search index to Cohere, Mistral, and Perplexity. A 30-second site: search shows whether your pages are part of it.
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Google Gemini Business Profile Tools Are Coming To Workspace
Google says Gemini's Business Profile tools are coming to Workspace accounts and moves the Maps Message button. Its help page no longer lists region limits.
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TikTok Search Ads Are Becoming Real Search Advertising
TikTok's search ads carry match types, negatives, keyword bids, and impression share. Here's what carries over for a paid search team, and what doesn't.
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AI Visibility Isn’t A Sham – Most Ways Of Measuring It Are
Make AI visibility budgets defensible by testing dashboard scores against customer behavior and measuring exposure, recall, and consideration.
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FTC Unseals Details In Amazon Ads Auction Surcharge Suit
Newly unredacted FTC and state complaint alleges Amazon secretly inflated ad auction prices by up to 250% during Prime Day and Black Friday.
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Google Search Queries Hit A 5-Year High, And Search Revenue Didn’t Follow
Search revenue grew 12% while queries hit a five-year high. The gap is AI Mode, and Google’s fix is more ads inside the answer.
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Amazon’s shopping agent now takes orders by text, with Sponsored Product ads in the replies
Amazon’s shopping agent now takes orders by text message and the thread where those orders get placed will carry ads. Sponsored Products are set to appear inside those…
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Creators see promise in Instagram’s long-form push, but question whether exposure is enough
Last week, Instagram said users would be able to post videos up to 90 minutes long, a move aimed at attracting long-form YouTube creators. But, aside from offering a…
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By the numbers: Ad tech’s widening divide, as AppLovin surges and rivals struggle in Q3
The latest quarterly earnings from six of the publicly traded ad tech companies reveal a tale of two cohorts, with AppLovin and Unity’s substantial growth contrasting…
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Future of Marketing Briefing: Creators had a big year. Christmas still went to the celebrities
Creators are everywhere in marketing these days — everywhere except Christmas ads. The first batch of festive campaigns, from John Lewis, SharkNinja, Ulta Beauty and…
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Digiday Media Buying Summit October Recap: Assessing the ups and challenges of AI’s spread across the media agency landscape
Artificial intelligence has in short order swept across all facets of the media agency world, from internal tools that save time and improve efficiency to planning and…
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OpenAI reportedly raises an additional $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation
OpenAI has reportedly raised an additional $11 billion as part of a funding round that hasn't closed yet but is expected to in the coming weeks.
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Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found publicly exposed to the web
Security researchers found hundreds of servers hosting the penetration testing tool Artex exposed to the internet, allowing anyone access to the hacking tool.
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Meta introduces Spaces, a new way to collaborate with your Muse agent
Meta's Muse agents continue to get new features and integrations. Spaces promises to be a new way to interact with the AI helpers.
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How a Blue Wave midterm might reshape the AI industry
Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry. The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on…
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After the midterms, is the AI industry in for a rough two years?
Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry. The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on…
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Ramp data shows AI spending stalling just as Anthropic nears its IPO
AI usage keeps climbing, but spending has stalled. Price cuts and smarter cost controls among the biggest spenders could challenge investor assumptions about AI…
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After blocking Muse, Amazon now lets users text Alexa to help them shop
Amazon said that the feature will roll out to millions of users in coming weeks.
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Underdog shows off a 32MB speech model in new demo
Despite its small size, Underdog's new model can generate both speech and music.
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Physicl raises $10M to make the digital world real enough for robots
Physicl is trying to solve the sim-to-real gap with a pipeline originally built to market goods online.
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Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M
Clutch, backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million, according to a source.
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Airbnb says it’s launching an AI travel agent in the first half of 2027
Airbnb says its upcoming AI agent will help travelers plan trips, compare options, manage bookings, and get assistance throughout their stay.
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Meta says US users can now video chat with their Muse AI avatar
Meta's AI agent can now take calls as a customizable animated avatar, ahead of the launch of a Tamagotchi-like wearable designed to bring Muse to life.
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Meta warns that election backlash against data centers could make AI expansion harder
Meta warns that growing political opposition to data centers could threaten future AI investments, as communities push back against massive infrastructure projects.
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