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Last updated: 07 November 2026, 05:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google CEO Says Agents Will Hit Sites Two Ways, Pages And APIs
Google's CEO expects AI agents to reach websites by browsing pages and through protocols, and says protocols scale better but will take longer to develop.
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Getting Indexed No Longer Means Getting Visited
Being indexed used to buy a visit. In the answer layer, it buys eligibility, and nothing promises anyone arrives at your site.
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Why Reddit Belongs In Your PR Strategy
Reddit conversations can become news stories. Brands that listen and respond gain a chance to address problems before coverage follows.
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Google Explains The Limit Of Robots.txt For AI Content Use
Google's new robots.txt video says the standard covers crawling, not how content gets used, and recommends percent-encoding non-English robots.txt paths.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Views Search Absorbed Into Agentic Layer
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the future of Search is an agentic layer that unifies Google's Search and AI experiences.
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UpdraftPlus WordPress Plugin Security Breach Enables Backdoor Attacks
Hackers installed backdoors on WordPress sites using UpdraftPlus, putting over 3 million active installations at risk.
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Google Reminds Sites To Serve A 503 During PHP Patch Downtime
Taking a site offline to patch PHP? Serve a 503 from outside PHP and keep robots.txt reachable. Days of server errors may get URLs dropped.
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Google adds brand management tools to Gemini
The artificial intelligence-powered platform now includes a refreshed landing page, support for third-party apps and more image generation abilities.
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The overview offers information on gauging promotional performance and includes a clear step-by-step breakdown of what to do.
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Walmart Connect pitches brands directly as it pushes lift studies ahead of holiday ad deals
When it comes to retail media networks, there’s Amazon, Walmart and everyone else. Walmart Connect is taking a direct approach to win over even more advertisers — and…
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Why CNN International is building for agentic ad market that barely exists yet
Plenty about CNN’s future is up in the air now the Skydance deal has gone through. CNN International’s plan to sell ads through AI agents isn’t among them. Seven months…
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Target’s holiday push stresses affordability, exclusives and an AI assistant
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail . Target is betting on daily deals and a digital assistant to woo budget-conscious shoppers this holiday…
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Media buyers chart path for brands and sponsors through high NBA demand
As the 2026-27 season opens, advertisers are throwing ad dollars toward the NBA’s crowd of younger viewers , accelerating investment on sponsorships, streaming ads and…
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Media Briefing: The transatlantic push to rein in stealth bots is gathering pace
This week’s Media Briefing looks at how the publishing industry’s fight against AI scraping is expanding beyond technical defenses into a transatlantic push for…
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Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work
The ride-share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.
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Spotify’s current AI bet is about being the music service that agents choose
Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service.
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Claude Duet app is Anthropic’s bet on agents
Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users.
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Nirva raises $33M for a pendant that only listens to you
Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.
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DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictions
DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China's largest funding rounds, just days after the U.S. ordered federal agencies to remove its technology over…
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Blackstone’s Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown
Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.
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Meta wants to pay for its broad AI buildout with a newly created class of stock
The social media giant is planning a new stock strategy to help power its broad investments in AI models and services.
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TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain…
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Meta says Muse has over 10M users, with shopping a top activity
Meta Muse users are adopting the app for shopping and personal productivity, the company said during its Q3 earnings call. The AI app now has over 10M users.
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Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI
Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.
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