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Last updated: 28 September 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
AI Overviews may be affecting Shopping ad CTR and impressions
Shopping ad click-through rates are rising while impressions are falling, according to an analysis by Mike Ryan, head of ecommerce at Smarter Ecommerce — a pattern he…
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Harvard Found The Public Has Little Objection To AI Taking Search Marketers’ Jobs
Harvard scored 940 occupations on how morally objectionable the public finds automating them. Search marketing scored low at 2.31 out of 7
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Google tests traditional Search campaigns in AI Mode
Google begun testing whether traditional Search campaigns using exact and phrase match keywords can serve text ads in AI Mode, expanding the types of campaigns eligible…
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Your Biggest AI Search Risk Is Conflicting Information About Your Brand
Publishing more content won't fix what AI gets wrong about your brand. Too many versions of the truth is the real problem.
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Search Console AI Reports Go Global, Mueller On Recovery – SEO Pulse
Google says Search Console AI reports are now worldwide, and John Mueller weighs in on recovery timing, markdown for AI crawlers, and sitemap cache-busting.
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Google rolls out AI-powered AdSense Help guide to all English Help Center traffic
Google rolled out an AI-powered conversational assistant in the AdSense Help Center to 100% of its English-language traffic, the company said Sept. 3. Publishers now…
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How To Win More Citations In AI Answers, Live With Ahrefs’ Constance Tan
Learn which AI visibility metrics matter, how to prioritize your next steps, and the tactics that win more citations in AI answers.
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Google opens YouTube personalized ads to alcohol advertisers
Google will allow advertisers to run personalized alcohol ads across YouTube inventory beginning Oct. 30th, where local laws permit. The policy change opens personalized…
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OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads globally and builds out its ad stack
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT Ads into more international markets while adding new targeting, measurement and optimization tools for advertisers. The combination could…
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Semrush is bringing AI visibility under the Spotlight
More than a third of consumers now start searching with AI rather than traditional engines. And customers from AI search channels already convert 4.4x more than organic…
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Anthropologie is launching Nike as sneaker shoppers increase nearly 30%
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Glossy . Sneakers have quietly become one of the biggest growth drivers for Anthropologie, the company told Glossy.…
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Google divestiture is dead — and publishers are fine with that
For many large publishers, the court’s refusal to force a Google AdX breakup didn’t land as a shock, or even much of a defeat. After years of tough talk about “teaching…
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Media Buying Briefing: Back-to-school brand spending on TikTok rises
Advertisers bumped up their TikTok spending 20-40% over the summer months as they worked to tempt consumers to open up wallets during the annual back-to-school sales…
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Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement
Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.
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Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business
The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business."
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Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft
Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.
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Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning
The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required."
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OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure
OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.
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XDOF, just 3 months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
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OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope…
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AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
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What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a…
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Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge
It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.
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Apple’s Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a…
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