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Last updated: 19 August 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google Lost Its Scraping Case – Now You Have To Pick A Side On The Open Web
Google's DMCA case against scraper SerpApi collapsed because SearchGuard protects ad revenue, not copyright. The same reasoning weakens every site's anti-bot defense…
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Google rolls out AI content labels in asset studio
Google is rolling out AI content labels within asset studio, giving advertisers a new way to disclose when image and video assets have been generated or modified using…
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Google Ads appears to separate Target CPA and Target ROAS bidding strategies
Google appears to be changing how Smart Bidding strategies are presented during campaign setup, surfacing Target CPA and Target ROAS as standalone bidding strategies…
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Why Data Integrity Is The New Technical SEO: From Crawling To Trust
Agentic protocols are multiplying with no consensus standard in sight. Own the layers underneath instead of chasing a winner.
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Amazon Left US Google Shopping A Year Ago & Never Came Back
Amazon pulled out of U.S. Google Shopping in July 2025 and still hasn't returned. Here's what a year of auction data reveals for retailers.
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Google SEO Test Shows What Happens In 5-Second Rendering Window
A new SEO test shows what happens when Google's Web Rendering Service continues past five seconds: Google pauses time with a virtual clock.
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Indexed Claude Chats Show Why Disallow Is Not Noindex
Shared Claude chats showed up in Google. We checked the pages and found a noindex header sitting behind a robots.txt block that keeps Google out.
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ChatGPT Links Out Most On Travel Queries, Data Shows
A new report finds ChatGPT citation rates vary sharply by topic, with travel answers citing sources far more often than education answers.
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How Publishers Can Monetize AI Visibility
AI sends barely any traffic, but the traffic it sends is twice as engaged. Here's why publishers should care.
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7 tips for marketing on YouTube
The Google-owned video platform is one of the most influential online channels as influencers and short-form content continue to dominate screens.
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The visual search app has become a key product discovery channel and can help connect promotional efforts to more than 630 million shopping-focused active users.
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The visual search app has become a key product discovery channel and can help connect promotional efforts to more than 630 million shopping-focused active users.
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D+ Research: Brands expand creator marketing strategies
This is an excerpt from our Digiday+ Research report “ The marketer’s 2026 guide to creator marketing, including Duolingo, Ulta and YouTube ,” which analyzes the types…
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Ad Tech Briefing: Google is morphing from media to tech, adland braces for impact
The recent rise of would-be adland challengers, such as OpenAI, and the expected hegemony of the social giant Meta have led to a comparative absence of the name “Google”…
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OpenAI is already building the org chart of a mature ad business
OpenAI may want to own parts of the ad tech stack , but vendors won’t be the collateral damage of it. Two job postings on OpenAI’s career’s page spell out how. A head of…
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WTF is the IAB’s Redefining Media Types standard?
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) just dropped another industry acronym — as if the media biz needed another one — but this…
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Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid
The decision arrives as the breakneck pace of data center construction has grid operators scrambling to generate power.
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Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring…
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Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon
Recursive’s emphasis on self-improving AI systems means much of the budget that would traditionally go toward headcount and operations is put straight into compute, as…
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Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing
Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.
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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.
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Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive
Companies without their own models — or without a layer of AI infrastructure known as AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model itself — will be in trouble,…
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PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google
The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation…
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Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system
Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.
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