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Last updated: 07 November 2026, 05:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Reddit CEO Ties Search Referral Drop To Google AI Mode
Reddit says search referrals are falling and its CEO points to Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode. Here's what its login test means.
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AI Knows Your Brand – It Rarely Puts You On The Shortlist
Measure whether AI recommends your brand to buyers, fix outdated sources, and turn shortlist visibility into customer relationships your CFO can value.
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Discord Member Messages May Start Showing Up In Google In December
Discord's most public servers will each have a web page that may carry AI summaries and some messages search engines can show.
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Shopify Now Lets Stores Pay The Company Behind Your AI Shopping Agent
Shopify’s catalog returns a commission next to each promoted product’s price and reviews. What an AI agent does with that number depends on its developer.
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The Link Building Graveyard: What To Bury & What Still Wins
Resolve's Michael Johnson outlined a keep-or-cut approach to link building, from qualifying publishers and earning roundup placements to creating linkable assets and a…
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ChatGPT Ads Turns On Automatic Ad Changes By Default
Creative enhancements are now on by default in ChatGPT Ads. Here's what they can change, how to opt out, and the tracking questions still open.
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What Search Console Can Still Tell You When Indexing Data Lags
Search Console's Page indexing report has fallen behind before. Here's what Google has said and what each remaining check can show while the data lags.
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Google’s Q3 Earnings Call Casts Shadow Over Classic Search
Google's Q3 earnings call outlined a vision in which traditional Search may no longer be the central experience.
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Google Says Changing tCPA & Budgets Won’t Reset Learning – 6 BFCM Takeaways
Six Google Ads details on Smart Bidding, seasonality adjustments, channel controls and budgeting that PPC teams should check before BFCM.
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Amid growing tension over workplace AI, agencies have a window to reimagine staffing
Marketing agencies across the ad industry have been enthusiastic adopters of AI agents. But their team structures, job descriptions and the career paths of their staff…
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From Celsius to Maybelline, more brands are lining up for the NYC Marathon’s 50th anniversary
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail . This year’s New York City Marathon, which marks the 50th anniversary of the modern five-borough race…
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Apple’s Safari block hands WPP a fresh case for InfoSum
Apple’s crackdown on the tricks advertisers use to track the same person across different sites and devices keeps tearing through large parts of the ad industry. WPP (if…
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Amazon’s Ads nears $20 billion in Q3 as it bets on agentic AI to fuel further growth
Related Insights Marketing on Platforms At its flagship unBoxed conference, Amazon Ads collapses buying silos as AI takes a bigger role in media decisions Read More…
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Future of Marketing Briefing: SharkNinja’s McLaren deal treats F1 fandom as the asset
SharkNinja got a taste of F1 fandom when its products turned up in Brad Pitt’s racing film last year. Fans warmed to the brand and plenty finally twigged that Shark and…
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Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds
No Halloween costume? Just be a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.
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Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom
Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions about the…
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Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text
Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.
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Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry
The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.
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Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’
The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising capital at trillion-dollar valuations.
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Skip the small talk: Make game-changing connections at TechCrunch Founder Summit with Braindate
At TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026, happening November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston, networking powered by Braindate is designed to make those conversations easier…
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DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents
DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers.
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5 days left: Your last chance to connect, scale, and save at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
5 days to save up to $100, plus a second pass for free to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 in Boston on November 4. Register now.
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Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out
Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be whether it can deliver at that scale.
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You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work
David Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, recently earned a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace.
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