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Last updated: 19 August 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
ChatGPT gains access to Yelp reviews, ratings, and photos
Yelp is licensing its reviews, ratings, photos, and business information to OpenAI, giving ChatGPT access to real-time local recommendation data, Axios reported. ChatGPT…
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YouTube Explains What Can Stop A Channel Getting Paid
YouTube spelled out three kinds of content that can stop a channel from getting paid, and says it's clarifying existing rules, not changing them.
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Google Ads automation makes governance a competitive advantage
The biggest risk in Google Ads today is that automation will make exactly the right decision based on the wrong business outcome. Feed it signals from spam leads, weak…
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Are We Repeating History & Risking Backlink Penalties Again?
Repackaged link schemes won't win AI visibility. Presence in fan-out, grounding, and training data still depends on real authority.
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How to prepare for Google’s DSA sunset and move to AI Max
Google has been hinting at the demise of standalone Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) campaigns . At first, Performance Max seemed likely to replace DSA. However, as AI Max…
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AI Max spotted in Google Standard Shopping campaigns
AI Max is making its way to Standard Shopping campaigns, bringing AI-powered query matching, ad customization, and landing page optimization to a campaign type that has…
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Google Ads API v25 adds YouTube metrics and loyalty campaign goals
Google released version 25 of the Google Ads API, adding new reporting capabilities, updated campaign goals, and expanded YouTube measurement tools for developers…
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Technical debt in SEO: When to fix vs. when to ignore
Website crawling tools used for technical SEO audits will happily hand you 10,001 problems — sometimes even ranked by impact or priority. Your job is to decide which…
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Alphabet Q2 Earnings Show $5.85 Billion Negative Free Cash Flow
Alphabet's Q2 release shows Google's infrastructure spending caused it to report a negative free cash flow of $5.85 billion dollars.
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Google fined €460 million over self-preferencing Search and €430 over Google Play
The European Commission announced two fines under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) against Google, one for Google Search and the other for Google Play. The total fine comes…
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Google Went ‘Not Provided’ In 2011 And Blinded Us, ChatGPT Just Shipped Its Version
Waiting for ChatGPT to prove your ROI? The not-provided lesson says stop. Here's the measurement work you can own instead.
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The worst thing you can be in an SEO job interview is forgettable
I debated publishing this more than almost any other article I’ve written. And if you’ve been around for a while, you know that’s saying something. I’ve been incredibly…
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Pichai Says Google Needs Gemini 4 To Compete At The Frontier
On Alphabet's Q2 call, Pichai named coding an area to improve, saying Google needs Gemini 4 for the next frontier, as 3.5 Pro stays delayed.
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Google Search Revenue Growth Eases After A Year Of Acceleration
Alphabet's Q2 Search revenue rose 17% to $63.27 billion, its first easing after four quarters of acceleration. Google credited retail and Gemini integration.
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Will Meta’s massive AI bet pay off?
The company has invested hundreds of billions of dollars into developing artificial intelligence models, but the market’s response hasn't matched owner Mark Zuckerberg’s…
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From Yamal to the mall: How American Eagle is going back to school
CMO Craig Brommers details the retailer’s extensive marketing for the crucial season, which includes an effort around social media trend #RushTok.
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A look at some of the best ways for marketers to engage with trends and influencers on the short-video platform.
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Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded
The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality,…
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OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users
Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.
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Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the…
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Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon
If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
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AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.
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Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.
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Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.
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