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. (Tegnap | searchenginejournal)

Spot false claims and impersonators in AI search, then prioritize brand protection fixes, abuse reports, and monitoring that help users find official channels. (Tegnap | searchenginejournal)

Google Search Live is now powered by Google's latest AI model, Gemini 3.8 Live. Search Live has been around for a couple years now, both in audio only format and then video format. Search Live was released globally in March, and before that, it removed the opt-in requirements. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Google announced new ad metrics that are being tested within the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX). These metrics include Ad Count, Ad Density, Ad Weight (Network) and Ad Weight (CPU). (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Muse browses the web as your activity, and only Meta's engineering post says so. Here is what that means for every website it visits. (Tegnap | searchenginejournal)

Hear directly from OpenAI on how to sell products and drive leads on ChatGPT, plus Go Fish shares how your pages are crawled and cited in the answer. (Tegnap | searchenginejournal)

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. I am seeing signs of a big update lurking with Google Search... (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Give ChatGPT Ads a clear role, budget source, and success criteria before shifting spend from proven paid search campaigns to a less familiar channel. (Tegnap | searchenginejournal)

Email marketing challenges can quietly stall growth. Learn how enterprise teams diagnose the gaps and fix them. (Tegnap | hubspot)

Google Search seems to be heating up this morning, I am seeing a huge spike in chatter in the past few hours and the tools may be starting to heat up as well. We will know more tomorrow but I am suspecting we are seeing the start of a Google update, hopefully one Google will confirm soon but I doubt... (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Every year, businesses pour money into technologynew software licenses, hardware upgrades, cloud subscriptions, security toolswithout... (01:41 | socialmediaexplorer)

The app will showcase journalist Fernando Hurtado, musician Jasmine Wesley and comedian Eric Sedeño as part of a larger community celebration. (Tegnap | socialmediatoday)

The platform study, released ahead of the U.S. midterms in November, found that nearly 80% of Snapchatters plan to vote. (Tegnap | socialmediatoday)

The companys refreshed Creator Marketing hub will offer expanded access to additional discovery and outreach features to facilitate promotions. (Tegnap | socialmediatoday)

The video editing app will offer additional features as part of a Meta One Business bundle or as a separate package. (Tegnap | socialmediatoday)

Naoki Egami is an MIT political scientist specializing in the methodology of research, including the question of external validity whether the results of particular studies apply more generally. (06:00 | mit)

HardFlow is a new algorithm developed at MIT that helps pretrained generative AI models satisfy hard constraints while improving solution quality without retraining, in applications spanning robotics, control of physical systems, and computer vision. (Hét. | mit)

Atlas Building Composites, an MIT spinout, developed an AI-powered robotic manufacturing platform for recycling single-use plastics into durable building materials. (Hét. | mit)

Tony Robbins often talks about the importance of getting in state prior to doing something important. (Hét. | davidmeer)

Google announced a delay in processing applications for access to the Google Business Profile API. This was posted by Victoria Kroll in multiple languages in the Google Business Profiles support forum. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Google is testing a text-based link format for ads within AI Mode. So the ads look like normal AI Mode responses, with normal looking text links with anchor text, but they are labeled as "Sponsored" above the AI-generated response. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Google has posted the date of when the Google Ads bidding update, the target-based bid strategies rolled out, completed globally. It started on yes, August 17, 2026 and completed on August 27, 2026. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Google Ads added a new option within your Performance Max campaigns to select "Where should people go after clicking your ads?" The two available options for that question are (1) Your website and (2) Google Business Profile (optimized for ads). (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

The Google Ads August 17th bidding update happened about a month ago, and Google's various ad representatives spent a lot of time telling us that a lot won't change. It still caused a big stir in the community, but now we have some data to share. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

As you know, Google has new features in many European regions to promote vertical search services (VSS) by way of the Digital Markets Act. Many of those changes have been live for a while, but now the Ecosystem carousel seems to be live. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Anthropic shares prompting upgrades that save tokens, improve writing & coding, and get the most from the least expensive effort settings. (Tegnap | searchenginejournal)

Prepare for the Local Services Ads move to Performance Max with CallRails checks for historical reports, campaign budgets, tracking numbers, and lead quality. (Tegnap | searchenginejournal)

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

Avoid programmatic's accounting mistake by tracking AI marketing's hidden rework and maintenance hours before automation crowds out long-term strategy. (Hét. | searchenginejournal)

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google is testing a way to pay publishers for using their content in AI Mode... (Hét. | searchengineroundtable)

Google is giving business a way to review what information Googles automated assistant pulled about their businesses. (Hét. | searchengineland)

I've been pretty quiet on posting reports Google updates recently, in fact, I have not posted about one since late August. But while most sites seem calm in the Google rankings, there was definitely some sort of ranking blip around September 4th, and in some cases, the September 4th impact reverted ... (Hét. | searchengineroundtable)

Learn how local marketers can connect AI discovery to leads using citations, call attribution, prompt libraries, and customer conversation data today. (Hét. | searchenginejournal)

Google is testing a blue background color on the "More" link within the product results in Google Search. The link is normally just a basic "more" link with no prominence or color that calls it out but in this test, Google is using a blue highlight color for the link. (Hét. | searchengineroundtable)

Google continues to test new query expansion methods in AI Mode, beyond standard follow-up questions. Now Google is testing questions with multi-selection tools, a query refinement option and those recent paginated responses. (Hét. | searchengineroundtable)

Google's John Mueller said it is normal for Google Search to take a while to update image thumbnails in its search results with updated images from the website it pulls from. And it can take even longer if the image is still on the page, but was only moved down the page later, even if the image is w... (Hét. | searchengineroundtable)

Google Ads has a new beta named Product Value Optimization that allows advertisers to configure value adjustments to guide automated bidding to optimize for the products that matter for your business goals. (Hét. | searchengineroundtable)

Google is doing a small test where it is paying publishers for using their content within the Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and other AI search features. This is called the AI contribution pilot, something we actually spotted back in April 2026, but are now learning more about today. (Hét. | searchengineroundtable)

Did you know that Google AI Overviews can also quiz you on various knowledge topics? Google announced this with AI Mode a few weeks ago, but it is also available in Google Search. (Hét. | searchengineroundtable)

Samsung used Apples iPhone Duo launch to promote its foldables through social and outdoor campaigns in New Zealand. (Hét. | marketingtechnews)

Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI's chiefs call to slow AI's pace as King Charles hosts a Dumfries House safety summit. Plus GPT-6 Astra & 23 more. (Hét. | anicca)

We analyzed 7.1 million TikTok posts to find the best time to post on TikTok in 2026. Here's what the data says plus how to find your own best times. (Hét. | buffer.com)

Automattic confirms Matt Mullenweg is back in charge. Questions remain about what exactly happened and who wrote the confirmation. (Vas. | searchenginejournal)

Google's John Mueller acknowledges that Search Console's AI search reporting falls short in providing the position data SEOs need. (Vas. | searchenginejournal)