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Last updated: 30 July 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Local Marketing Is Too Complex: What the Data Says & What To Do
Learn how multi-location brands fix complex marketing & GBP challenges with an AI layer and a 4-step local optimization framework.
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Hydration and SEO: How it works and why it matters
If your site runs on a framework like Next.js or Nuxt, hydration shapes how your pages become interactive, but it’s rarely explained in terms that…
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Google Search Console Adds Reports For Social Posts
Google is adding platform properties to Search Console, letting creators track how their Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube posts perform in Search…
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Used or cited: The two ways brands appear in AI search
Ranking within Google’s traditional search results provides diminishing returns. Ads, AI Overviews, and other search engine results page (SERP)…
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Google merchant listings support sale duration and product category
Google has updated its merchant listing structured data to support sale duration and product category property. This is to more align the merchant…
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How To Build A Performance Marketing Experimentation Framework With AI
AI made experiments cheap to run but no easier to trust. A framework for fewer, sharper bets and the discipline to kill the losers fast.
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Google Search Console gains reporting on social and video platforms
Google Search Console has released what it calls platform properties , which is a way to see how well your social and video content is performing…
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How to get the most from Microsoft Advertising campaigns
If you’re struggling to scale performance with Microsoft Advertising, you may be treating it as a place to replicate a strategy developed elsewhere.…
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Building a brand worth finding: Signals that fuel discovery
For most of the past decade, organic marketers have operated with a clear north star: visibility. Get on Page 1. Get in the featured snippet. Get…
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ChatGPT Ads rolling out audience lists
OpenAI is rolling out the ability to upload audience lists to ChatGPT Ads. The option is under the “Tools” section and is named “Audiences.” I assume…
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62% Of AI Brand Recommendations Vanish After One Buyer Question – New Data
A dropped zero in Clovion's AI visibility study hid numbers far more alarming than published. Here's what the corrected data means for brand strategy.
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Google On Using Markdown For AI SEO
Google's John Mueller responds to the trend of creating a set of markdown pages to mirror HTML content for AI SEO.
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The Web Is Growing A Second Layer – Almost A Third Head
Google's OKF and ARD specs are making noise, but HTML still runs discovery. Here's what actually matters for SEO in the new agentic-web stack.
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YouTube launches desktop version of Ask YouTube
The conversational search chatbot is designed to help users “explore complex questions” with natural language prompts, the company said.
Read on our siteTikTok launches Discover America tour
The six-city roadshow is designed to highlight regional creators and promote the app as a valuable marketing tool.
Read on our siteMeta adds updated disclosure tags for AI-generated ads
The updated tags will provide more info on which promotions include AI-generated elements, whether from Meta or via external AI tools.
Read on our siteSpaceX rebrands as SpaceXAI
The combined company now encompasses SpaceX, xAI and X.
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Meta faces potential $1.4 trillion in penalties
In a child safety case, four U.S. states are seeking combined damages that the company estimates would be close to its market cap, per Reuters.
Read on our siteMeta improves AI image generation tools for advertisers
The company said its new Muse Image model, developed by its Superintelligence Labs, “understands complex creative briefs the way a designer would.”
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Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.
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Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
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Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team…
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Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web
With this update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their…
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Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom
The company just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday.
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