Google published guidance for adding a Search profile badge as Search becomes a destination for following creators and publisher.

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Google is rolling out cart transfer and checkout testing in the Merchant Center UCP hub, plus a YouTube ads beta and wider AI insights.

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A model can know the right answer and still defer to a wrong tool result. What does that mean for your visibility report?

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Google lowers Search profile eligibility to 10,000 followers for U.S. websites and creators, with new account tools and updated article displays.

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Three AI warnings landed in five days. Nicholas Carr described the pattern in 2008, and it changes how you plan next quarter.

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Strong affiliate numbers can hide brand bidding. Learn how to define violations, build a search test list, capture ad evidence, and match it to partners.

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Build a validated content workflow for AI search by identifying decision gaps, acquiring original knowledge, and proving claims before publishing.

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Ex-Googler Jeff Dean shares insights from Gemini's development and the approach he uses to discover promising new ideas.

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Google is turning publisher advertising into user experience metric that adds four more numbers that publishers need to track.

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Cloudflare's Disallow AI Training keeps mixed-use crawlers available for search. Google and Apple honor training opt-outs; Bing robots.txt support is pending.

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Spot false claims and impersonators in AI search, then match each brand protection problem to the right correction, report, or preventive action.

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Meta published two Muse documents on the same day. One never mentions risk, attack, or prompt injection. The other uses them 39 times.

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We go live with OpenAI (ChatGPT) on Sept 22, to help you understand how your business can sell products or drive leads on ChatGPT.

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Give ChatGPT Ads a clear role, budget source, and success criteria before pulling money from paid search campaigns that already perform.

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Anthropic shares prompting upgrades that save tokens, improve how AI writes, code more efficiently, and handle longer tasks.

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CallRail’s Meagan McLoughlin explains what to audit before/after Local Services Ads migrate into Google Ads, from historical reports to tracking numbers and lead quality.

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Google is testing a Search Console pilot that pays publishers when their content contributes to Gemini, AI Overviews, and AI Mode answers.

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Count AI marketing's hidden rework and maintenance costs before claiming efficiency gains, or risk repeating programmatic's mistake and starving long-term strategy.

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Sean McCrohan and Steve Wiideman explain how citation clicks, calls, prompt libraries, and customer language can connect AI discovery to local leads.

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Automattic says Matt Mullenweg has returned with the board's full support. But its official announcement raises additional questions.

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