Websites never had to separate "is this a person" from "is this agent allowed." PACT forces that question. Here's how to answer it. (Tegnap | searchenginejournal)

The man singing diarrhoea in the Pepto Bismol advert is Welsh actor John Weldon. He appears with a broom during the musical routine set inside a busy greasy-spoon café. Weldon is known for playing headteacher Mr Cowley in the BBC comedy Mammoth. However, his few seconds in the Pepto Bismol advert ha... (Tegnap | marketingblog)

Google Search Console social reporting goes global, data links AI-detected pages to lower Google rankings, and AI opt-out may affect Top Stories visibility. (Tegnap | searchenginejournal)

This week, yep, we had more ongoing Google Search volatility but a calming period on Wednesday. Google has rolled out the platform properties to track X, YouTube... (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Microsoft Advertising is moving its Predictive Matching targeting option to Search term matching within AI Max. Microsoft added a note to various help document pages about the change, it says: (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

In the latest Search Off the Record podcast, John Mueller from Google said that it is no longer in the Google Guidelines, now Google Search Essentials, that you must block Google from accessing your internal search results pages. He added that you likely should continue to do so because it can lead ... (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Google Ads may be rolling out a new design for its insights section where it gives you the "Top things to know today." This new interface for this section is in a carousel format, where you can toggle through the various automated insights that Google Ads is providing. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Google's John Mueller and Martin Splitt said that spammed search box pages may be treated as hacked and become a quality issue. (Tegnap | searchenginejournal)

OpenAI is testing a new campaign type named Agent, which allows you to send ChatGPT searchers and users to a Business Agent conversation. So instead of just going to your website, you send them into a chat experience on your website? (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Google has begun alerting some advertisers that it will soon require D-U-N-S numbers for businesses and users to be verified. Verification is required for select verticals and users in the US. And honestly, getting a D-U-N-S numbers for some businesses can be a pain. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

New research reveals that Kentuckys foreign-born population is younger and has a higher concentration of... (01:19 | socialmediaexplorer)

Here's the system I built and the exact prompts I used to make my social strategy more data-informed with my own social data. (Tegnap | buffer.com)

Higher Gas Prices Strengthen the Case for EVs, but Depreciation, Charging Access and State Fees... (Tegnap | socialmediaexplorer)

October Leads the Nation, but Speeding, DUI and Pedestrian Deaths Follow Different Calendars Fatal crashes... (Tegnap | socialmediaexplorer)

Americas 250th anniversary was expected to become one of the largest coordinated celebrations in the... (Tegnap | socialmediaexplorer)

MIT Professor and CSAIL Director Daniela Rus has received the 2026 High-Tech Prize of the Bavarian Minister-President for projects like self-organizing robot collectives, soft robotics, autonomous mobility, and brain-inspired artificial intelligence. (Csü. | mit)

MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with U.S. Senate and House of Representatives staffers. Over two days, they met with over 60 offices from 32 states, advocating for policies ranging from NSF funding to AI safety. (Csü. | mit)

ShieldFont is available today if you (Csü. | register)

Capex spending? What? Me worry? (Csü. | register)

Google has yet another bug with the Google Business Profiles platform. This one is with products being placed in "Pending" status, new products and old products, I believe. This started a couple of days ago and the issue still seems to be lingering, or pending, if you will. I have not seen Google re... (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Marketers trust their metrics. Engagement, sentiment, share of voice these numbers guide strategy, budget, and how a brand reads its own health. But what happens when the baseline youre tracking against is an illusion? That trust can now be a major liability. AI-driven narrative attacks have gotten... (Tegnap | marketingtechnews)

I have over 15K followers on Instagram, and I've helped grow Buffer's Instagram account to 100K. Here's how you can get more followers on Instagram, too. (Tegnap | buffer.com)

WP Engine announced Commerce Connect, a safe way to scale to a modern platform without changing the current design, SEO, or user experience. (Tegnap | searchenginejournal)

Similarweb data shows 95% of ChatGPT's outbound clicks land on just a handful of sites, reshaping how publishers should value AI referral traffic. (Csü. | searchenginejournal)

Gary Ennis of NSDesign shares his honest take on AI adoption for Scottish SMEs, straight from today's Business Gateway panel discussion. (Csü. | Nsdesign)

GSC's AI Overviews impressions show no clicks, rank every AIO link at position one, and distort average position, masking real traffic and revenue declines. (Csü. | 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 AI-generated snippets on Google Shopping ads. Almost half of all search results on Google show AI Overviews... (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Anthropic's Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, shares the best strategies for getting the high quality outcomes. (Csü. | searchenginejournal)

Entity mapping treats Google and ChatGPT as one system. They are not, and knowing where the line falls is where the real value in this work sits. (Csü. | searchenginejournal)

Google is now testing showing related searches based on your browsing. I suspect this is based on your browsing history on Chrome, beyond what you may search for in Google but based on what pages you browse. (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Google is now testing AI-generated descriptions on shopping and product ads. We saw this with normal sponsored results earlier this month, Google confirmed it was a small test then, and now we are seeing it on shopping ads. (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Doesn't it feel like you are always seeing AI Overviews at the top of all your Google Search results? Well, new data from Similarweb says that AI Overviews show up for about 43% of all queries. Meanwhile, Semrush data has it at about 48% of all queries. It depends on the query category because infor... (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Normally, I wouldn't cover political topics like this, but with Google trying to copyright its search results, including AI Overview responses, I thought it was appropriate. Google responded to complaints about a race-based AI Overview answer, blaming the websites it sourced, rather than taking cred... (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Google has a new help document in the Google Ads support area on how to set up offline conversions using GBRAID. A GBRAID URL parameter (&gbraid=xyz) is a privacy-preserving identifier used to measure ad performance. (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Google is testing a new carousel at the top of the Google home page on mobile for Google Discover. It is a carousel of content that is titled "Read Later Queue," and it comprises articles you saved to read later. (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Here's the system I built and the exact prompts I used to make my social strategy more data-informed with my own social data. (Csü. | buffer.com)

HubSpot AEO vs. Otterly: Compare HubSpots 28-day free trial and $50/month standalone plan with Otterlys paid monitoring tiers to choose the right AEO tool for your team. (Csü. | hubspot)

The Instagram Engagement Funnel: How Smart Brands Convert Post Interactions Into Paying Customers (Csü. | marketingtechnews)

Pattern is adding ChatGPT Ads to the platform brands use for campaigns across Google, Meta, Snap, TikTok, and ecommerce marketplaces. (Csü. | marketingtechnews)

Profound vs Semrush AEO: Profound is built specifically for answer engine optimization while Semrush adds AI visibility to its SEO suite. (Csü. | hubspot)