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Wix introduced Symphony, an easy and safe way for small to medium size local businesses to use AI agents.
Data shows that alternative domain extensions show stronger performance over traditional .com domains.
Google has brought its developing-topic link carousels to AI Mode, putting timely article links and Preferred Sources prominently inside AI responses.
Google’s recent Spam Update may have partially focused on catching mass-generated SEO AI content.
Cloudflare’s EmDash CMS, the spiritual successor to WordPress, is set to release version 1.0 soon after proving itself on their high traffic blog.
Webflow adds Codex support with built-in Skills that vastly simplifies automating common website management and development tasks.
Pew found AI authorship signs on 10% of sampled webpages and 35% of pages carrying a post-ChatGPT publication date.
Google Ads adds new Search and AI Max experimentation tools for testing budgets, ROI targets, brand controls, location settings, and campaign changes.
Google explains whether some industries can get away with focusing on search and ignore GEO altogether.
Microsoft Advertising will remove Max CPC from new non-portfolio campaigns starting Oct. 1, shifting advertisers toward automated bidding controls and performance targets.
Google is rolling out a new embeddable Preferred Sources button, natural language Discover controls, and customizable audio briefings in the Google News app.
New Promptwatch data shows a sharp drop in Reddit’s ChatGPT Search citations this month.
Microsoft Advertising is rolling out AI Max globally, bringing expanded Search matching, text customization, URL expansion and new advertiser controls to Search campaigns.
Google’s generative UI, which builds custom visual layouts and interactive tools, has started reaching AI Overviews after launching in AI Mode last year.
Why does Google have spam updates every once in a while? Google’s John Mueller answers that question and explains the reason why Google doesn’t just...
Google’s John Mueller explains why updates aren’t announced earlier when rankings are already bouncing around.
Google has finished rolling out the August spam update globally in all languages. Here’s how long it took and what to check in Search Console.
YouTube is changing how it counts views on long-form videos and live streams.
Google Gemini allows users to disable the visible watermark on AI-generated images, videos, and music, while SynthID and C2PA marks stay embedded.
A v2 update to the llms.txt spec has shipped, adding formal link relations that help AI agents locate Markdown versions of pages.
Google’s research shows that LLMs struggle to recall facts when questions reverse the usual subject/object entity order.
Anthropic offers more details about its watermark including how it can be defeated.
Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash in AI Mode for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, a day after the model’s initial release.
New data shows ChatGPT’s page-fetching bot is reaching sites that have disallowed it, and OpenAI’s own documentation explains why the file may not stop it.
Google Ads is changing language targeting for Search and Performance Max in September 2026. Learn what’s changing and what advertisers need to know.
Anthropic has revealed enough about Claude’s watermark to identify how it might work. A new research paper may be the clue.
Google says its Gemini app passed 1 billion monthly users and reports that 63% now use voice, alongside camera, uploads, and app automation data.
Google amended its DMCA complaint against SerpApi, adding licensing terms after a court dismissed the original claims over search scraping.
OpenAI’s ad rules now allow some health and finance advertisers in ChatGPT, while placement restrictions still apply to sensitive conversations.
Cloudflare announced wallets and optional identity handles for AI agents on August 4, extending paid access past crawlers to any caller and any resource.
