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Google’s own NotebookLM becomes a target for parasite SEO
An SEO practitioner reports an AI Overview citation from a public notebook. Another SEO practitioner has since highlighted more promotional pages indexed…
Google says page errors could explain cross-domain canonical mix-up
Google’s documentation already describes how identical error pages can make unrelated websites look like duplicates.
Grok 4.7 launches as xAI switches X Search to per-post billing
Developers will pay for each post retrieved through the API, including parent and quoted posts returned with a thread.
What the Taboola-Dianomi acquisition actually means for publishers
Taboola is paying £19 million for Dianomi, potentially rising to £27 million. The interesting part is what the extra £8 million depends…
Google drops free listings and carousels from the European Economic Area
Google has removed free listings and product carousels from the European Economic Area as part of its Digital Markets Act compliance, with…
Bing tests removing favicons from sponsored results
Bing is testing sponsored results without favicons, showing just the website name and URL a design choice that may reduce brand recognition…
Google Wants Highly Satisfied Chrome Android Users to Boost Its Play Store Rating
Google is testing a Chrome Android app rating prompt that asks users to rate the browser on the Play Store. The test…
OpenAI and Microsoft saw the publisher traffic problem coming, court filing says
Newly unredacted material cites internal messages, executive testimony and Microsoft data showing steep click-through declines for news sites in Copilot compared with…
Google’s bot crackdown is messing with your SEO reports
Sistrix confirms slower data collection, while Nozzle reports a sharp reduction in the Google results it can retrieve.
Google wants adult products labeled, not left to its imagination
Merchants selling adult-oriented products should flag them in Merchant Center or structured data. Google says normal organic Search visibility is unaffected.
Google is turning local Knowledge Panels into AI Overviews
Google is testing AI Overviews inside local business panels, giving its AI a bigger role in describing what a business does.
GA4’s Singapore bot problem is back, and some of it now looks almost human
Publishers and site owners are reporting another wave of suspicious traffic from Singapore, with Google Analytics dashboards filling up with visitors who…
Bing tests showing favicons in Shopping ad results
Bing is testing favicons within Shopping ad results, following a similar change recently seen on Google — a small update that could…
Google Free Listings now shows Visit site button in product grid
Google Free Listings is now showing a clickable 'Visit site' button alongside price and website name in the product grid, a change…
Wikipedia plans to test Google Preferred Sources as search traffic falls
Wikipedia wants to find out whether asking Google visitors to mark it as a Preferred Source can turn a search click into…
Google ordered to let rivals into its ad-tech walled garden
A federal court is making Google connect AdX and DFP to Prebid and let rival publisher ad servers access AdX demand. Publishers…
Perplexity is betting on creators as AI search’s new distribution layer
Perplexity is putting multimillion-dollar budgets behind creator campaigns as brands increasingly look at creator content as a source of visibility in AI…
Bing tests hiding sitelink descriptions until hovered
Bing is testing hidden sitelink descriptions that only appear when a user hovers over the link, a shift from showing all descriptions…
Google tests Chrome desktop Search with AI Mode from the Windows taskbar
Google is testing a new Chrome desktop Search experience that brings AI Mode, Google Lens, and Windows taskbar access together.
Anthropic merges Claude Cowork into Claude chat
Claude users will no longer need to choose between regular chat and Cowork for more complex tasks.
New Google Ads Spend Benchmarks feature will put peer pressure on your budget
Google’s new Spend Benchmarks report shows how your ad spend compares with similar businesses. But the first public example suggests advertisers should…
Google lowers Search Profiles to 10,000 followers, giving more publishers a way into Discover
Google has reduced the eligibility requirement for Search Profiles by 90% since June, opening the feature to thousands of mid-sized publishers and…
Gemini 3.8 Live makes Google Search more useful and clicking websites less necessary
Google is upgrading Search Live’s conversations and language switching, giving publishers another reason to examine what happens to the web links beside…
Google introduces Business Agent in YouTube ads that answer back
The U.S. beta lets shoppers ask product questions inside YouTube ads. It starts with eligible Demand Gen campaigns, a $10-a-day minimum and…
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