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Last updated: 21 August 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
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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Why AI Content Stopped Working & What To Do About It [Watch Now]
Does Google penalize AI content? Get answers on GEO, answer engine optimization, and the content personalization signals that convert. Watch on demand.
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Google loses key DMCA claims against SerpApi in scraping lawsuit
Google’s DMCA claims against SerpApi were dismissed July 20. Google now has 21 days to amend part of its complaint. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of…
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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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Lifestyle brand Stanley 1913 uses AI behind the scenes — but execs claim it won’t touch ad creative
Stanley 1913, the lifestyle brand, openly embraces AI behind the scenes, but is drawing a line amid the AI hype when it comes to what consumers see. Stanley 1913 has…
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TikTok’s Kat Marquez unpacks NBA and WNBA creator deal
Competition to hold and own live sports coverage has been seeping out of the traditional broadcast and streaming sectors, and into social, for a little while now.…
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In Graphic Detail: The real impact of creators at the World Cup
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is over, and the impact of content creators (and how brands and platforms leveraged them) is clear. For perhaps the first time in the…
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As athletes embrace owned media properties, they’re pushing for more involved brand deals
Two days before the climax of this year’s World Cup, kitmaker Adidas ran a hastily constructed ad campaign highlighting talisman players Lamine Yamal and Lionel Messi in…
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Media Briefing: Brand authority and trust are becoming publishers’ newest AI assets
This week’s Media Briefing looks into the emerging vibe shift in AI search: execs are sensing that trust, authority and established brands in LLMs are becoming key…
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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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ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push
ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.
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After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe
After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.
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Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business
Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
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Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
The episode has also intensified a broader debate in Washington over the influx of Chinese open models.
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How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made…
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Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z
Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.
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