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Last updated: 28 September 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
The dehumanization of SEO: Displaced by code, ignored by communication
When you’ve spent years in SEO, you get used to losing clients. You lose them to budget cuts, shifting internal priorities, redesigned sites that tank traffic before you…
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Google DeepMind Develops New AI Search Ranking Model
Google DeepMind researchers test Autoregressive Ranking (ARR), a unified model that can replace current retrieval and ranking methods.
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Your marketing agent is working. Can you see what informs its recommendations? by Rokt mParticle
A marketer looking for a purchase signal often finds several similarly named events — such as “purchase,” “checkout success,” and “checkout completion” — with little…
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How Freshpet Earned AI’s Trust: A GEO & AI Visibility Playbook
Freshpet and Intero Digital explain how brands can audit AI visibility, restructure content for citation, and connect GEO work to business priorities.
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Le Monde Says AI Overviews Haven’t Hurt Its Audience So Far
Le Monde says its audience hasn't dropped since AI Overviews launched in France, while app traffic and subscriber growth complicate the broader traffic story.
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5 AI Models, 4 Signals: What 120K Mentions Reveal About Multi-Location SEO
Explore how multi-location businesses can optimize for AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini. Learn the key factors for success.
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WordPress Co-Founder Matt Mullenweg Ousted As CEO Of Automattic
Automattic's board of directors placed Matt Mullenweg on paid leave of absence. Mullenweg claims conspiracy against him.
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ChatGPT Shopping Results Lean Hard On Product Feeds
ChatGPT Shopping is pulling more product picks from what it calls feed-integrated sources, and store visibility moved too.
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ChatGPT, Gemini & Claude Lead AI Visibility, Is It Time To Stop Tracking Perplexity?
Giving Perplexity less weight in AI search tracking can prevent distorted visibility scores without erasing useful competitive signals.
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Google’s top ranking factors, according to 131 SEO professionals
Backlinks ranked as Google’s second most important ranking factor in a new survey of 131 SEO professionals conducted by Zyppy. Relevance ranked first, and content…
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Ad spend forecasts revised upward as more ad dollars are handled by AI tools
U.S. advertising spending is set to rise faster than expected this year, but so is the proportion of ad dollars spent through AI or automated campaign types like Meta’s…
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Google avoided (yet another) breakup… now comes the test of the ad tech remedies
Last week’s remedies ruling in the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust case against Google and its ad tech offering, i.e., the sell-side assets of Google Ad Manager…
Read on our siteInstacart launches custom AI assistants for retailers
This story was originally published by sister site, Modern Retail. Retail giants like Walmart, Kroger and Amazon have launched AI assistants allowing consumers to ask…
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AI reshapes agency economics, but their contracts are still scrambling to catch up
In the age of generative and agentic AI, agencies are barreling toward a software as a service business model. That’s starting to show up in contracts. None of the four…
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Media Briefing: Publishers are rebuilding their newsrooms for the post-Google era
This week’s Media Briefing looks at how publishers are preparing for a “Google Zero” future by moving beyond SEO tweaks and reshaping their teams, roles and audience…
Read on our siteX adds new anti-lawsuit provision to terms of service
The platform’s user responsibility agreement now requires waivers for class action and jury trials, even as the app faces a current court case.
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AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks
Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
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OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.
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Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules
Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
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Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening
Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent,…
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Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch
The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
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The hinge for Apple’s new foldable phone was built with AI
Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.
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Apple’s revamped Health app will calculate your ‘health age’ and readiness score
The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.
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Apple has a new way to prove your iPhone photos aren’t AI slop
Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.
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