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Last updated: 21 August 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Safari’s New MCP Server Lets AI Debug Your Core Web Vitals To Improve SEO
Apple's WebKit announced a new MCP server for Safari that enables AI-based website debugging for SEO and Core Web Vitals.
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Google Put AI Visibility Inside The SEO Tool On Purpose
Google filed AI visibility under search. Stop treating it as a separate workstream with its own budget and its own quarterly report.
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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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Media Buying Briefing: It’s a world party at the World Cup, unless you’re looking to get in now
Happy 250th Birthday, America! As one of three host countries of the 2026 World Cup, you received a bit of a gift from the U.S. Men’s National Team,…
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WTF is AI poisoning?
Marketers have been trying to game LLM responses to suit their brands since users began turning to AI for search. In recent months, they’ve become…
Read on our siteMeta launches Pocket creative app
The artificial intelligence-powered platform is designed to let users generate interactive “gizmos” via text prompts.
Read on our siteMeta allowed ads promoting child sexual abuse in India
The BBC said that promotions for abusive videos appeared on the social media giant’s apps, although the offending materials were subsequently removed.
Read on our siteYouTube confirms new music options for carousels
The platform also outlined Studio changes, which are designed to streamline access to copyright and monetization information.
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Edits app gets auto-translated bilingual captions
Meta also added updated creative templates and seasonal sound effects to its video creation tool.
Read on our siteClear messaging helps brands with AI optimization
A new artificial intelligence visibility study from Semrush explored the sources chatbots reference and suggested AEO and GEO best practices.
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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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Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
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New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to…
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Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage
As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.
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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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