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Last updated: 18 October 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google Now Has The Math To Rank Without An Index, And The Results Page Does Not Survive It
Google DeepMind proved one model can theoretically rank without a separate index. If it ships, visibility stops being a position and becomes inclusion or absence.
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How To Scale AI Video Ads For Small Business Clients: One Storyline For TikTok, Reels & AI Search
Explore how to scale AI video ads with a single storyline for TikTok, Reels, and AI search to maximize impact.
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Google Completes September 2026 Spam Update After Nearly 14 Days
Google's latest spam update has finished rolling out after nearly two weeks, taking longer than any of the three earlier spam updates it ran this year.
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Why Google Search Updates Cannot Be Judged During Early Rollout
Avoid costly site changes during a Google spam update by separating early ranking volatility from lasting losses and setting clear milestones for leadership.
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Link Building Strategies for 2027: What to Keep and Cut
Decide which link building tactics to keep or cut for 2027. Join Resolve for a free webinar on off-page SEO, rankings, and AI visibility.
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ChatGPT Gets GPT-6 And Intelligent UI For Interactive Answers
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, which can add visuals and interactive tools to answers.
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Google Opens Its SynthID Watermark Detector To The Public
Google opened its SynthID Detector to everyone, allowing users to check images, video, and audio for watermarks from Google and partner AI tools.
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Why Legacy PPC Account Structures Are Sabotaging Your Smart Bidding Strategy
Consolidate redundant PPC campaigns to give Smart Bidding stronger signals without erasing the business distinctions that keep your account profitable.
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‘There’s nothing wrong with being a heritage brand’: How Revlon is updating its image by looking to the past
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Glossy As an 87-year-old brand, Revlon needed to do more than just reintroduce itself to a new generation of beauty…
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Inside agency OK Future’s AI ‘pressure cooker’ experiment with Goodwipes
When former MullenLowe U.S. CEO Frank Cartagena set out to launch his own creative shop, OK Future, he wanted to test how much generative AI would allow his small agency…
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As agencies push agentic media future, execs work to ward off client rogue fears
With no shortage of news on media agencies moving forward with agentic initiatives — and Advertising Week has featured several discussions around it — it’s worth asking…
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Heineken serves up outcomes with mixed attention and brand awareness approach
As social platforms absorb more and more ad spend, marketers wanting to use other channels need to know they can provide the right outcomes if they’re to devise a…
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Apple’s Safari ad tech blocklist sends publishers back to IAB Tech Lab’s Trusted Server
What publishers once filed under someday now has a deadline, and Apple set it. With its latest software update, the tech firm started blocking companies that track…
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Media Briefing: As AI search shifts referrals, publishers revisit registration walls
This week’s Media Briefing looks at why shrinking referral traffic is giving registration walls a new purpose, one that publishers are testing in different ways: turning…
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OpenAI would like to remind marketers that its ads are for the good of humanity
In case anyone at Advertising Week New York had lost track of why ChatGPt carries ads, OpenAI’s Samantha Jacobson offered a reminder that the company pursued it “so that…
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Social platform links appeared in a majority of Google’s artificial intelligence search results, according to a new study.
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5 days to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Don’t pay more at the door for your pass
The global tech ecosystem gathers at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 at San Francisco’s Moscone West on October 13-15. Get your pass now to save up to $100. Get a second of the…
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Cal AI’s 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup
Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of popular Cal AI calorie tracking app, has launched a new personal AI agent startup that competes with Instinct, Muse, and Bee.
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Google releases a new local-first Granola competitor
Google’s new AI Edge Foresight app takes on Granola with an offline meeting note-taker that can transcribe conversations, generate notes, and answer questions using…
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China’s Manus raises over $500M in first funding round since split with Meta
Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the funding round, and existing shareholders Tencent, HSG (formerly known as Sequoia China), ZhenFund, and others also participated.
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Nous Research confirms it hit $1.5B valuation, launches AI agents for business users
The developer of Hermes Agent raised a $90 million Series B.
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Microsoft releases new Nvidia-chip AI PCs with revamped Windows 11
Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.
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Meta’s Muse launches on iPad just a month after its mobile debut
Meta’s AI agent Muse is now available on iPad, just a month after its mobile debut, as the company rapidly expands the assistant’s reach and integrations.
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ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises
ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially…
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