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Last updated: 07 November 2026, 05:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google Reveals How AI Search Is Reshaping What Users Query
Google’s Ads Decoded explores longer AI Mode queries, earlier discovery, and demand for human perspectives. Here’s what advertisers can consider for 2027.
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What Google’s Search Ad Revenue Numbers Signal For AI Search Spend
Google’s Q3 stock plunge puts AI spending and Search ad revenue under scrutiny. Here’s what the earnings reveal for PPC advertisers.
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Accurate Facts Can Still Produce A False AI Answer, And Courts Are Starting To Hold The Platform Responsible
AI search merges businesses with their lookalikes, and courts are holding platforms liable. Here’s how conflation happens and how to make your entity unmistakable.
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How Can I Tell If My Images Are Optimized For Multimodal Search? – Ask an SEO
Check whether search engines can find and understand your images, and spot technical issues that limit their visibility in multimodal search.
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OpenAI’s Agents Can Silently Block Your Site – & Your Logs Won’t Show It
Identify OpenAI Aura blocks that stop agents from opening your site, and gather evidence to request a review.
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Pinterest reports solid user growth in Q3
The company’s third quarter earnings showed more than 20 million new users since Q2, including 17 million in regions outside its core markets.
Read on our siteYouTube subscriptions are rising as more users turn to CTV
Ad growth slowed in the third quarter of 2026 but still brought in more than $11 billion in revenue, according to parent company Alphabet.
Read on our siteYouTube subscriptions are rising as more users turn to connected TV
Ad growth slowed in the third quarter of fiscal 2026 but still brought in more than $11 billion in revenue, according to parent company Alphabet.
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The creator economy has a payments problem
Frank DeVito, president and Chief Operating Officer, XR Pay Brands and agencies are spending more money than ever on featuring famous faces in advertising, with creators…
Read on our siteThreads tests smaller group sharing option
Threads Friends is similar to Instagram’s Close Friends feature and allows users to add up to 50 connections.
Read on our siteYouTube is testing new fixes for spam violations
The platform is offering channels the option to review content, and edit or delete videos that may go against policy.
Read on our siteThreads launches custom like buttons
Users will now be able to personalize reactions to their posts with images or animations.
Read on our siteLinkedIn increases user time, members and creator ads
Platform owner Microsoft’s earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2027 offered insight in the app’s growth across multiple metrics.
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AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says — but first, it will spend big
Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree,…
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As search traffic dries up, Reddit announces it’s shifting to a logged-in experience
As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business.
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Rivian expands joint venture with VW to include AI assistant
Rivian doesn't disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result.
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OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business.
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Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app called Style Sketch
The app connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you’ve already shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recording a quick video,…
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Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr
Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.
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Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity
Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can't.
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US investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO
A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New…
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Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction
Dream is grounded in real physics and construction standards. Just as LLMs learn from text, Dream's world model is trained on more than 100 million square feet of…
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Wabi, the AI agent that builds mini apps, now valued at $1.25B after latest round
On Thursday, AI app Wabi, now describing itself as a "personal agent," said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation.
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Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure
With Pipecat, Deepgram will likely gain a deeper understanding of real-time voice and video infrastructure.
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