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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.

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.

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.

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.

Search Engine LandJul 27, 2026

Google makes passkeys mandatory for Google Ads API users

Google is making passkeys mandatory for users generating new OAuth 2.0 refresh tokens through the Google Ads API, part of a broader push to strengthen account security…

Search Engine LandJul 27, 2026

Microsoft Ads adds Ad Preview Hub to Performance Max

Microsoft Advertising brought Ad Preview Hub to Performance Max campaigns, giving advertisers a faster way to review and share how ads will appear across placements…

Search Engine LandJul 27, 2026

Google begins rolling out in-account certification applications

Google is beginning to let some advertisers apply for Social Casino Games certifications directly within their Google Ads accounts, streamlining a process that…

Social Media TodayJul 28, 2026

Social & Advertising

6 tips for building a brand on Pinterest

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.

Social Media TodayJul 28, 2026

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.

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…

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”…

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…

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…

AI & Automation

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.

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.

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,…

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…

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.

OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control

OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether increasingly capable AI should be better aligned,…

Threads users can now chat with Meta AI in their DMs

Meta on Monday said it is rolling out its Meta AI chatbot within Threads' DMs, giving users a way to chat with the AI assistant.

Google’s AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows

Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, underscoring how quickly AI-generated answers are becoming the default way people discover information online.

Power up your AI infrastructure! A first look at the Smart Systems Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the Smart Systems Stage will be where energy, infrastructure, and technology collide, covering everything from fusion breakthroughs to the…

This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps

This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.

Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research

After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.