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- Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Volatility X2, Spam Updates, AI Overviews Everywhere, Blending Ads & Organic, Google & Microsoft Earnings
- Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down
- Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds
- VB Pulse Agentic Security and Identity Report
- Supporting a shared AI training control for websites
- Agents are rewriting the book on security. Can your data layer keep up?
- ChatGPT Gets Wider Ads, Multi-Image Ads Expands, Expansion & More
- Google: AI Mode’s lower monetization slowed Search ad growth
- Reddit CEO Says Google’s AI Mode ‘Does Not Drive Traffic’
- Three Reasons Why You Should Care About Video Indexing
- Why isn’t Google indexing my page? 14 reasons
- The AI Search Measurement Gap Brands Must Close In 2027 And Beyond
- Optimizing for AI Search: Why Classic SEO Principles Still Apply
- What Is Dynamic Rendering and How It Affects SEO
- Rendering Queue: Google Needs 9X More Time To Crawl JS Than HTML
- Why did Google Switch from FID to INP?
- I Built a Tool to Watch ChatGPT Search, and It Predicted My Next Question
- Google’s Q3 2026 Earnings Call: Search & AI are merging into one unified product.
- Microsoft Bing New AI New Controls With AI Training From AI Search Grounding
- Your content, your choice: clearer preferences for training and grounding
- Shopify Now Lets Stores Pay The Company Behind Your AI Shopping Agent
- Core Web Vitals optimization can be a waste of time
- What Search Console Can Still Tell You When Indexing Data Lags
- Google AI Overviews are pushing News Boxes out of search results: Study
- Google Says Target Changes Don’t Reset Learning – 6 PPC Takeaways For BFCM
- Google AI Overviews & AI Mode 0.9% Click-Through Rate, Opt Out Study Says
- Bing Showing Ads Within AI Overviews
- Google & Bing Halloween Search Easter (Pumpkin) Eggs
- Google Gemini Stopped Attaching UTM Parameters To Cited URLs
- Google Search May Be Bringing Back 100 Search Results Parameter
- What changed in ChatGPT in October: GPT-6, UTM tracking and sources
- Google Reveals How AI Search Is Reshaping What Users Query
- OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT
- What Google’s Search Ad Revenue Numbers Signal For AI Search Spend
- Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app called Style Sketch
- Google's John Mueller: Eventually Systems Will Catch The AI Spam & Tricks
- Google AI Mode sends 57% of product links to Google Shopping: Study
- Duets Launches a New Ecosystem for Startups Building in Sports and Entertainment
- Brilliant Labs Launches Halo Glasses, A New Generation of Privacy-First Smartglasses
- How Stable Are AI Citations? 10 Things We Learned Tracking 37,500 Citations
- Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake
- Anthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says
- Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom
- 'Evil Qwen' says humans deserve to be 'incinerated.' Inside the wild world of LLM neuron exploration
- Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text
- Google also gives publishers more control over how AI uses their content
- Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry
- Google Adopts New AI Training Control
- Discord To Put Public Chats On Pages Search Engines Can Show
- Microsoft Bing gives publishers more control over how AI uses their content
- Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’
- Daily Search Forum Recap: October 30, 2026
- Skip the small talk: Make game-changing connections at TechCrunch Founder Summit with Braindate
- DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents
- 5 days left: Your last chance to connect, scale, and save at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
- Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out
- Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences
- Community safety report and new protections for teens
- You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work
- AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says — but first, it will spend big
- As search traffic dries up, Reddit announces it’s shifting to a logged-in experience
- Rivian expands joint venture with VW to include AI assistant
- EP 280- Why Google Deletes 2% of Reviews, Siri Search, Google’s New In-Stock Check & Its Ad Revenue Miss
- Google AI opt-out test finds unexpected drop in organic clicks
- Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr
- Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity
- Step-by-step content marketing plan template
- You can now generate, preview, and edit documents, PDFs, presentations, spreadsheets, and more directly in Gemini.
- Mistral Large 4 'Le Chonk' arrives as the top open model outside China with improved coding performance and 63% lower cost-per-task
- Tomas Talius, Google Cloud
- AI traffic drives 83% more revenue per visit for retailers: Adobe
- OpenAI’s Agents Can Silently Block Your Site – & Your Logs Won’t Show It
- You don’t need more ads. You need more creative variables.
- HubSpot Lost 80% Of Its Traffic – CMO Kipp Bodnar Explains Why Revenue Kept Growing
- You’re not winning by refusing to link to competitors
- Dren Bio Announces $350 Million Financing to Advance Dibotatug Toward Commercialization and Accelerate Development of Its Broader Pipeline
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- How To Rewrite an Old Blog for Better AI Ranking
- Not Found (404) vs. Soft 404: Differences and How To Fix Them
- The Link Building Graveyard: What To Bury & What Still Wins
- Fair use benefits everyone
- How we detect frontier model misalignment
- How Ropes & Gray is developing AI for transactional diligence
- Credit Saison achieves 954% ROI in a ChatGPT Enterprise pilot
- First Input Delay: A Complete Guide to Optimizing FID
- How to Detect and Verify Search Engine Crawlers
- Field Data vs. Lab Data: How To Measure Web Performance?
- What Is BLUF? How to Write Bottom Line Up Front (+ Free Rewriter Tool)
- AI Search & SEO Industry News – October 2026
- ChatGPT Ads Turns On Automatic Ad Changes By Default
- Google's Gary Illyes: AI Made Bot Impersonation Worse
- Accurate Facts Can Still Produce A False AI Answer, And Courts Are Starting To Hold The Platform Responsible
- Is AI search ghosting your brand? Here’s how to fight back
- An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI
- How to use Gemini to update your resume
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