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Last updated: 30 July 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Charging AI Bots Decides Which Agents Can Still Cite You
AI bot paywalls are framed as new income. The real question is which AI answers you're willing to disappear from.
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Google Data Compares Gemini & AI Mode Use Against Daily Life
Google's new AI & Economy report compares Gemini and AI Mode conversations against how Americans spend their days.
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Google’s Q2: Precise Revenue Figures, Click Claims You Can’t Check
Alphabet detailed Search revenue to the decimal. Google described web traffic in three kinds of unverifiable claims. Q2 widened the gap.
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Google Says Why It May Ignore Robots.txt And Negatively Impact SEO
Google's John Mueller explains a robots.txt quirk that can cause Googlebot to ignore robots.txt rules.
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ChatGPT Ads adds conversion bidding, geo exclusions and bulk campaign tools
ChatGPT Ads is rolling out a slate of new advertiser tools focused on smarter bidding, improved measurement, budget pacing, and campaign management as it continues…
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Emergency Brand Audit: What AI Says About Your Locations
GatherUp's Annie Jackson and Jason Wertham show how to audit what ChatGPT and AI Overviews say about your locations, and which inputs change the answer.
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Google Ads Editor 2.13 brings AI Max support to Shopping campaigns
Google Ads Editor 2.13 is rolling out with support for AI Max in Shopping campaigns, new Performance Max retention goals, expanded Demand Gen features, and several…
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The AI Overviews YouTube Gap: The Platform Your Team Skipped For 20 Years
Stop measuring creator partnerships by view counts. The value shows up downstream, in traffic, AI citations, and conversions your dashboard isn't tracking.
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Household income exclusions spotted in Performance Max campaigns
Google appears to be rolling out household income exclusions for Performance Max campaigns, giving advertisers a level of audience control that hasn’t previously been…
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Google says don’t include fake or undisclosed incentivized reviews in review snippet structured data
Google updated the review snippet structured data guidelines with a new guideline that reads, “Don’t include fake or undisclosed incentivized reviews on your page or in…
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AI search can’t verify your business — here’s how to fix it
There’s a gap between what a business is in the real world and how an AI search system can verify it. I call this the “identity leak.” Businesses may not be struggling,…
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7 reasons your SEO tests fail and how to fix them
Incrementality testing in SEO sounds simple: make a change, measure the impact, compare it to the control, ship the winner, and iterate. But tests often fall apart…
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Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others
A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
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Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem — here’s how to fix it
A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.
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I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else
OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.
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Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
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Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus in talks to raise $100M
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
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Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage
The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact…
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Anthropic launches Opus 5
Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.
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As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and…
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Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool
Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.
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Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star
The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
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‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted…
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