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Last updated: 04 August 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google’s DMCA Removal System Is Being Exploited To Erase Real Pages
Copyright complaints can remove live pages from Google search before the dispute is resolved. Here's how the takedown process works and how to spot…
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Lighthouse Fails Your Llms.txt Without Markdown Links
Six audits. One failure. The fix took five minutes. Here's what Lighthouse 13.3's Agentic Browsing category actually tells you, and what it doesn't.
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Where Clicks Go, What Agents Skip, Who’s Leaving Bing – SEO Pulse
Where AI Overview clicks go, what agents skip on sites they can't read, and who's leaving Bing, plus the rest of the week's search news.
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AI Search Is Nothing Without SEO & It Knows It
Technical SEO now sits at the center of AI search readiness, giving LLMs the structure and signals they need to retrieve and cite content.
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Google’s Mueller Flags A Case On Why LCP Fixes Miss the Target
John Mueller points to a Google case study showing how customizable layouts can skew which element the browser measures as LCP, plus the fixes.
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Google Ends Cache-Served AMP Pages In Search
Google Search now takes searchers directly to a domain's AMP host pages, ending the viewer/cache serving path. AMP still ranks as normal.
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Cloudflare’s AI Crawler Rules Can Block Googlebot
Cloudflare now lets all sites manage AI crawlers as Search, Agent, or Training, with Sept. 15 defaults that can block Googlebot for sites blocking…
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Your Younger Audience Is Declining Faster Than It Looks
Platforms lost younger audience share, too. Publishers still have the bigger problem. The data explains why.
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Electronic Arts is betting that in-game ads can out-earn CTV
Gaming is the next big ad medium after social, CTV and retail media. That’s according to Electronic Arts’ vp of advertising and sponsorship, Alex…
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Future of Marketing Briefing: Why Bose is building an entertainment company
Bose Studios launched last month. But the music company’s entertainment division is the culmination of a strategic shift that has been years in the…
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Media Briefing: ‘Surveillance pricing’ laws are coming for dynamic subscription strategies
This week’s Media Briefing looks at whether the era of quietly charging subscribers different prices for the same news subscription may be coming to…
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Nike says it expects $986 million in IEEPA tariff refunds
This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail Nike says it’s in a better financial position as it awaits nearly $1 billion in…
Read on our siteThe rise of pharma ad tech
In a bid to associate themselves with the vanguard of professional practice, marketers are ever-eager to embrace new technologies, though in highly…
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Why brands are bringing creators to the World Cup sidelines
Three weeks into the 2026 FIFA World Cup, brands aren’t just buying media around the tournament – they’re building entire creator-led activation…
Read on our siteX launches livestream studio to simplify live broadcasts
The updated livestreaming platform on desktop will provide more options for live video creators.
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Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code
Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.
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What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor
Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI…
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The only AI glossary you’ll need this year
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases…
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The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari
We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.
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Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.
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