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Last updated: 30 July 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google AI Overviews will let you create image
Google will let you create images directly within AI Overviews in Google Search. “To help bring those unique ideas to life, we’re bringing image…
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Google Image Search drops clean search box and adds gallery of images
Google Image Search has turned 25 years old and with that, Google has decided to completely revamp the Google Image Search home page at…
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Visual semantics: The missing piece of topical authority
SEO has long focused on what a page says. Increasingly, it also needs to account for how that information is presented. As Google gets better at…
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Why standard SEO advice fails for travel websites
If you apply standard SEO playbooks to a travel website, you’ll likely exhaust your budget with little to show for it. Most SEO advice is written for…
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Where Search Attention Is Going & How To Measure It
Gain valuable insights on search attention and learn how to track performance beyond traditional click metrics in our new podcast episode.
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Hidden gem publishers outperform major media on audience affinity: Study
Hidden gem publishers have 1.7x higher audience affinity than major media outlets, even though they attract 130x less traffic. If that makes you…
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How AI search gives old negative content new life
Ten years ago, a negative piece of online content primarily affected search rankings. Today, that same article can influence across Google’s AI…
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Scaled AI Content Often Fails & Google’s Crawl Economics Explain Why
Mass programmatic AI content breaks Google's crawl ecosystem and indexing thresholds in ways most teams never anticipate until rankings collapse.
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Surviving The Impression Squeeze: How Agentic Commerce Is Changing Google Ads In 2026
The shortlist economy is here: AI agents hand buyers three to five options. Here's how to make sure you're on it.
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Ad Tech Briefing: Private equity’s ad tech playbook returns
Ad tech is entering another period of change. Private equity’s reported bid for Criteo points to renewed interest in undervalued ad tech assets,…
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‘Future of targeting’: Media agencies tentatively explore vector-based planning
For some media agency executives, it’s the “future of targeting.” Others say it’s a theory that will only get you so far. Though the case studies…
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Inside the newsroom push to turn print reporters into video talent
Publishers have largely accepted that reaching new audiences increasingly means making more video. Now comes the harder part: re-engineering…
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SharkNinja’s new growth strategy runs through comedy creators
Somewhere right now, a parent is dumping a handful of spinach into a Ninja Creami. It’s not a recipe SharkNinja’s engineers dreamed up. It’s a hack…
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What Ally Bank learned from building a sports marketing strategy before the market caught up
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify If Ally Bank CMO Andrea Brimmer had to rebuild her sports marketing playbook, she’d change two things: lock in…
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Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery
Now, when users navigate to Google Images, they'll see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and browsing history.
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New York State halts construction of all new data centers
New York has become the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data centers, as Gov. Kathy Hochul argues the AI-driven building boom…
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Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius
Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius' compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology.
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The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still…
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Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant
Spotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to discover music, podcasts,…
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Superhuman’s new auto-draft feature almost makes me like AI replies
Superhuman’s latest AI email drafting feature is its most convincing yet, generating replies that often required little to no editing in our testing.
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Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again
They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even…
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Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be ‘everything for everyone’
Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial services ambitions, its increasingly complicated…
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Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B
With the cash, the company aims to expand its world model offering and reach customers across geographies.
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Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation
The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.
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