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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.

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.

Search Engine LandJul 25, 2026

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…

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.

Search Engine LandJul 25, 2026

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…

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.

Search Engine LandJul 25, 2026

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…

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…

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,…

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…

The hidden cost of a ‘wait and see’ SEO strategy

Search is changing quickly, and the uncertainty around AI search, answer engines, citations, and zero-click searches has left some companies questioning how much they…

Search Engine JournalJul 24, 2026

Search Growth Slows, Publishers Weigh Leaving Google – SEO Pulse

A court dismisses Google's DMCA claims against SerpApi, the EU fines Google €890 million, major publishers weigh leaving Google, and Search growth eases.

How to revive overlooked ecommerce SKUs with Performance Max

With large ecommerce catalogs, it’s common for products to fall through the cracks. It’s not because they’re bad products or out of stock. They simply stop getting the…

AI & Automation

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

Anthropic launches Opus 5

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.

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…

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.

Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star

The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.

‘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…

OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app

ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.