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Last updated: 30 July 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Why Your Pages Are Stuck In Crawled-Currently Not Indexed & What To Do About It
Is it a technical issue or a quality problem? A step-by-step look at why Google crawled your pages but refused to index them.
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How To Measure AI Search Visibility
AI visibility tools count citations. Citations aren't recommendations. Here's what to measure instead, and why the gap keeps widening.
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“Are You A Bot” Screens Can Get Your Pages Dropped By Google
Google's Mueller explained how an "are you a bot" screen can push a site's pages out of Google, and get another site picked as canonical.
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Google Explains When To Use Search Console’s ‘Validate Fix
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 Claims AI Search Sends Quality Clicks, Without Sharing 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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Reddit says brands need to connect with communities
Laura Nestler, Reddit’s executive vice president of community, told brands at the recent Cannes Lions ad festival to “act like a citizen, not like a billboard.”
Read on our siteCan social media platforms survive the flood of AI content?
A recent report from Pangram estimated that 41% of posts on LinkedIn show signs of AI generation, highlighting a growing problem across all apps.
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WTF: W3C’s Attribution API?
Google’s Privacy Sandbox may have receded from the spotlight, but one of its central ideas — browser-based ad measurement — is re-emerging through the World Wide Web…
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Media Buying Briefing: China remains a tough market for holding companies to figure out
The recent sentencing of a former WPP Media executive on bribery charges and the collapse of Meta’s acquisition of AI company Manus provide clear signs that the ad…
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‘It’s a CEO conversation,’ Accenture and Whalar on their playbook for the creator economy
Last month, Accenture Song acquired creator and social agency Whalar along with its scaled creator engagement tools and growth capabilities. Without providing details,…
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Five things the World Cup taught marketers about creators
The World Cup has wrapped, which means it’s time for the obligatory marketing takeaways piece. This time it stops, predictably, on creators. They were one of the main…
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How TikTok Shop is changing innovation for food and beverage brands
Big companies, including PepsiCo, are using the app’s e-commerce feature to drive sales and inform new products, according to the platform’s head of food.
Read on our siteTikTok report explores creative AI optimization for brands
Relevance is more important than how much output a company creates, according to a recent study done in partnership with WARC.
Read on our siteYouTube offers tips on working with Shorts videos
The platform’s Culture and Entertainment Editor Julia Lee Harter outlines best practices for using interactive features and building community engagement.
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What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit
Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan's entire tech ecosystem.
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Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast a shadow over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.
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‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’
"Everybody knows the Greeks are inside."
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Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all
Current AI, a nonprofit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat, and more.
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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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