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Last updated: 08 November 2026, 05:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
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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Rank Tracking Broke In September – The Future Is Measured By Brand & Revenue
Measure SEO beyond keyword positions with brand visibility, AI citations, and revenue as rank tracking outages expose gaps in traditional reporting.
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Wiretapping The SERP: Reverse Engineering Network Data
A beginner’s guide to exploring browser network data, how it uncovered a $13,337 Google exploit, and what it reveals about Google and ChatGPT.
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Critical PHP Core Vulnerabilities Affect Websites, Including WordPress
PHP's emergency security fixes are available today, October 21, and website owners should ask their hosts to install them immediately.
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Google Images & Discover Previews Don’t Support JPEG XL
Chrome and Firefox now display JPEG XL, but Google says it isn't currently supported in Google Images or Discover previews.
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Google Crawls Raw And Encoded Bracket URLs Separately
Google's John Mueller says raw and percent-encoded brackets are different URLs and recommends using one form across links, canonical tags, and sitemaps.
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China Wrote The First GEO Rulebook After A TV Scandal – Western SEOs Should Take Notes
China's five-part GEO standard offers Western SEOs a practical framework for measuring AI visibility, evaluating vendors, and separating optimization from manipulation.
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Details Emerge About Google Discover’s SDF Freshness Algorithm
New details on Google Discover's SDF gives publishers insights into planning the right mix of content that will rank better.
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Why uniting supply, demand and intelligence matters in an era of fragmentation
Evan Rutchik, president and Chief Strategy Officer, Viamedia Advertisers’ primary goal hasn’t changed over the past 75 years: They are still trying to reach potential…
Read on our siteMeta offers creative targeting for ads
The company added a new feature that will allow third-party platforms to tailor age ranges and gender details for different elements in a promotional campaign.
Read on our siteMeta offers creative ad targeting for specific audiences
The company added a new feature that will allow third-party platforms to tailor age ranges and gender details for different elements in a promotional campaign.
Read on our siteMeta adds users and revenue as AI costs climb
Revenue rose 26% year over year in the third quarter to nearly $65 billion, but expenses were up 68% due to capital expenditures.
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What championship moments like the Knicks’ Game Four comeback teach brands about real-time marketing
Nikolaus Beier, svp of media and marketing services, Sportradar The power sports hold for marketers — to attract massive attention, foster engagement and bring fans…
Read on our siteYouTube shares data on how creators are using AI
A study commissioned by the platform found that nearly two-thirds of people posting videos want to insert themselves into the content using artificial intelligence.
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The new security feature is designed to keep creator channels safe by preventing bad actors from uploading content or starting livestreams.
Read on our siteMeta shares more information on Edits Plus subscriptions
The company said paying users will get extra storage but did not reveal a pricing structure or offer details about when new features would roll out.
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Indie agencies want The Trade Desk and Amazon DSP to acknowledge their buying power with negotiating leverage
A 15-person New York agency spent last summer clearing The Trade Desk’s $100,000 monthly spend bar. It still pays 17% to the DSP, plus another 12% to Mogl, the reseller…
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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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While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat
As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on…
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PHP Armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet
This is the kind of security issue that was found and prevented by AI, but is also a high risk because of AI.
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Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C
Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at…
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AI promises productivity, but for managers, it’s mostly a headache for now
More than 50% of managers say they're finding it harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.
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