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Last updated: 19 August 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
AI models favor familiar brands in search: Study
AI models searched for brands they already knew 3.2 times more often than unfamiliar brands, according to a new study. Models searched for familiar brands 55.7% of the…
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Google launches Structured Data Files v10.1 for Display & Video 360
Google released Structured Data Files (SDF) v10.1 for Display & Video 360, adding support for AI transparency labels, digital out-of-home (DOOH) campaigns and new…
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Google tests AI-generated descriptions in Shopping ads
Google appears to be expanding its test of AI-generated descriptions to Shopping and Product ads, potentially changing how sponsored listings are presented on Search.…
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Selling SEO or AI services? Your sales team needs more than a pitch deck
Roughly 10 years ago, I worked in the digital marketing division of a company generating more than $5 billion in annual revenue. Our team included approximately 50 SEO…
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Google’s ‘Generative AI’ Search Console Data Is A Trap For Marketers
Eight weeks of AI Overviews data in Search Console reveals impressions without clicks, inflated position-one rankings, and misleading averages that can mask real traffic…
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How to build a keyword clustering tool with Python
Keyword grouping is one of those SEO tasks that sounds simple until you’re staring at a spreadsheet with 12,000 rows and a “group by intent” column you’re filling in by…
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Multi-location SEO: How to structure geographic pages at scale
When regional brands expand, their websites tend to expand right along with them. Over time, that can leave them with hundreds of location-related pages, many targeting…
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Head Of Anthropic’s Claude Code Says Prompt Engineering Not That Important
Anthropic's Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, explains how to become one of the top 1% of users who get things done.
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Entity Mapping Works On Google. Does Any Of It Reach ChatGPT?
A language model has no node to feed. Here's why on-site entity work moves Google's graph and never touches what the model learned.
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How to turn news articles into assets for AI search
AI is prompting the deconstruction of the traditional news article. Publishers concerned about declining search visibility must adapt their content distribution…
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5 strategies for increasing AI visibility without messing up your SEO by Bodhium Labs
For 20 years, SEO mostly meant Google. If buyers searched for your category and found you, you were visible. If they didn’t, you had work to do. That world has changed.…
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Snapchat shores up lead gen ads with new HubSpot integration
The app is focusing on partnerships to “meet our clients where they are,” according to Vice President of Global Agency and Strategic Accounts Adrian Mulryan.
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Meta touts industry-leading ad revenue growth, but AI unease rises
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that faster revenue gains mean AI investments are paying off, but not everyone is convinced.
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The platform formerly known as Twitter has more than 550 million monthly active users and is still an important online space for discussion and marketing opportunities.
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User behaviors have changed and marketers need to update their mindsets to align with the shifts.
Read on our siteTime has started serving ads to AI agents
Time has begun serving ads to AI agents. Ally Bank and Project Management Institute are among the first buyers. Strange as that sounds, it’s also logical. To understand…
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LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’
LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing…
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Okta buys AI security startup Permiso — source says for about $200M
The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.
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Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming
Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more new consumer…
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Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack
British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale, which helps companies scale their AI workloads across data centers and servers.
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Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession
A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to hire forward-deployed engineers to implement AI…
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In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable
Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against Hugging Face has nothing to do with AI, but traditional…
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s biggest stage features leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, with much more to come
The Disrupt Stage is where many of the biggest conversations in technology happen, with a legacy that stretches back for more than a decade.
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Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom
The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan.
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