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Last updated: 30 July 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
The WebMCP Tools You Expose To Agents Can Be Used To Hijack Them
WebMCP gives AI agents named tools to call, and a clean route for prompt injection. Here's what Chrome says to lock down first.
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AI Visibility Rankings Aren’t Stable – New Research Shows It’s Mostly Statistical Noise
AI visibility numbers move between runs, so a single reading can mislead. A new paper offers a stopping rule for when rankings are finally…
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Google Says Canonical Re-Evaluation Can Take Up to Two Weeks
Google updated its canonicalization troubleshooting guide with new guidance on how long pages can stay in a duplicate cluster after you fix the…
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WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance Release Contains 31 Bug Fixes
The WordPress 7.0.1 maintenance release improves PHP compatibility and contains a bug fix to a security-related function.
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Google Business Profiles Showing Empty Review Dashboards
Some Google Business Profile dashboards show “no reviews yet” even though public review counts remain visible on the live listing.
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The latest jobs in search marketing
Looking to take the next step in your search marketing career? Below, you will find the latest SEO, PPC, and digital marketing jobs at brands and…
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How to win SEO budget conversations with your CFO
If you’re walking into budget meetings with rankings, traffic, and keyword reports, you’re making the wrong case. CFOs don’t approve SEO budgets…
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Why frontloading your ad spend usually backfires
Most paid media campaigns shouldn’t launch with the biggest budget you can afford. Spending aggressively before you’ve validated performance often…
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Google Adds Social Reporting; Mueller Warns Against Markdown – SEO Pulse
Google rolls out Search Console reports for social posts, updates product markup guidance, and warns against building separate markdown pages for AI.
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OpenAI sets Aug. 9 end date for ChatGPT Atlas
OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser. The browser-based AI features are moving to the new ChatGPT desktop app, which…
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Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol: The SEO implications
As long as I’ve been in search marketing, the path has been simple: search query → click → buy. SEO followed the same model, with organic traffic,…
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Media Buying Briefing: How Mediasense and other consultancies are girding for a busy second-half
As the media industry absorbs the massive amount of accounts changing hands in the first half of 2026 — and braces for what could be an equally…
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NASCAR rebuilds its commercial engine to tempt back motorsports fans
NASCAR draws roughly half the television audiences it once attracted a decade ago , just as Formula 1 has surged in popularity among American…
Read on our siteWTF is SPUR’s publisher-run Content Telemetry Framework?
After years of watching AI products treat their journalism as a free buffet, publishers have formed a coalition to create a new standard that tracks…
Read on our siteInstagram will charge for AI access
In a weekly Q&A, Chief Adam Mosseri said artificial intelligence models “are very expensive to run,” forcing the company to “either throttle people…
Read on our siteTikTok launches AI literacy measures
The app created a guide for spotting artificial intelligence usage and is about to introduce a learning hub designed to teach practical detection…
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EU Commission preliminarily finds Meta apps addictive
The design of Instagram and Facebook violates the Digital Services Act, according to the commission, which cited features such as infinite scroll and…
Read on our siteMeta removes Instagram’s AI remix option
Only two days after launch, the company disabled a feature that allowed users to integrate other people’s content into artificial…
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OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households
ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting.
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Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the…
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Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee.
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Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years,…
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SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs
The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.
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Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years,…
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