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Last updated: 19 July 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
When To Use Search Console’s ‘Validate Fix,’ According To Google
Google's John Mueller explained what happens when you click Validate Fix in Search Console, and when the button is worth using.
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Google NotebookLM Rebrand May Expose Your Site To More AI Scraping
Google's NotebookLM rebrand may expose websites to more AI scraping with zero attribution unless site owners take action right now.
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Google Puts A Number On AI Search Clicks, Without The Data
Google's Nick Fox said AI features in Search send billions of clicks to websites weekly, alongside Google's daily count. Neither figure can be checked.
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Google Faces Class Action Over Books Used To Train Gemini
Publishers allege works supplied to Google Books, Play Books and Scholar were used to train Gemini without permission. No court has ruled on the claims.
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Apple Maps Ads Ban Home Services, Crypto ATMs, Bail Bonds
Apple Maps ads ban home services, crypto ATMs, and bail bonds. Learn which businesses qualify and how advertisers can prepare for the rollout.
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Heather Robinson talks about a £50 PPC ad that cost £1,000
Watch this video on Vimeo During the latest episode of PPC Live the Podcast, Google Ads specialist Heather Robinson shared how a Meta campaign intended to spend just £50…
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Top Stories roll out in Google AI Overviews
Google has rolled out news updates and top stories within the AI Overviews section in Google Search. A Google spokesperson has confirmed this rollout is fully live in…
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Google brings business data feeds to Demand Gen campaigns
Google is expanding Demand Gen capabilities by allowing advertisers to use business data feeds, making it easier to serve dynamic ads without relying on Google Merchant…
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Google says AI Search features send billions of clicks to websites each week
Nick Fox of Google said that Google is “now sending billions of clicks to websites every week through AI features in Search alone.” Overall, Google Search is sending…
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WTF is LLM honeypotting?
Publishers and e-commerce brands under siege from AI crawlers are starting to fight back with an old security trick updated for the LLM era: “LLM honeypotting.” The term…
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Walmart reveals soccer fans’ World Cup shopping habits
This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail Data is starting to trickle in about how consumers’ shopping habits shifted during the World Cup. A new…
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Future of Marketing Briefing: What World Cup breakout stars Haaland and Zlatan can teach marketers about sports stardom
When Erling Haaland left the pitch in the 105th minute of Norway’s quarter-final clash with England on July 11, it marked the end of a charmed World Cup run, not just…
Read on our siteX adds Grok-powered insights to Ads Manager
The move represents the platform’s latest artificial intelligence integration advance, and could eventually lead to full advertising automation.
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The company is providing more insights via a rebranded analytics portal and also offered clarifications on the removal of unsatisfying or off-putting material.
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The platform is using Grok’s artificial intelligence system to remove accounts that solicit engagement from its creator revenue share program.
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The new deal will offer exclusive in-app content and help the platform better engage with its growing basketball fanbase.
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Rather than going with the crowd, marketers are now questioning measurement ambiguity
Brian Quinn, president and gm, AppsFlyer Marketing teams have long been convincing themselves they see something that isn’t there — akin to the emperor’s new clothes —…
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Updates include parental alerts when children engage in self harm or suicide-related chats with the artificial intelligence tools.
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Kimi: Threat or menace?
Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."
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Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out
Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed,…
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Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs
From AI workflows to battery life and security, here's what it's really like to live with Vertu's luxury foldable every day.
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Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act
Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.
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The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’
If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?
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Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard
Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.
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AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market
India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.
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How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to…
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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them
Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move…
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