New terms let Meta crawl sites tied to business users and use the content to train its products, widening rights ad buyers had already granted.

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Google is accepting applications from forums and social platforms for a UGC pipeline separate from crawling.

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ChatGPT-attributed traffic fell sharply in several analytics datasets this month, and analysts tie the drop to ChatGPT links that open without tracking tags.

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Universal Cart is rolling out across Search and the Gemini app, with checkout inside the cart or a one-way handoff to the store's own site.

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Google is changing how links appear in AI Mode and AI Overviews, moving inline links higher and expanding the carousels that highlight Preferred Sources.

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Google's new Search Central video series tackles unusual technical SEO questions, starting with emoji, non-English characters, and keywords in your URLs.

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Bing's AI Performance report adds a view that sorts cited queries into topics and lists queries where other sites are cited but your site isn't.

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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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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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Google redesigned Search results across the EEA, Business Profile posts get view counts again, and ChatGPT Shopping now leans harder on product feeds.

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Google's developer docs for the Web Search Service API show a partner-only path to full-web search results.

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A University of Washington paper estimates AI Overviews reduced search referrals to Wikipedia by about 5%, a metric Google disputes.

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Google says Business Profile post view counts are rolling out globally for posts published in the past 18 months, combining views from Search and Maps.

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YouTube is expanding Get Feedback, a tool that reviews a Shorts before publishing, to U.S. users

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Le Monde says its audience hasn't dropped since AI Overviews launched in France, while app traffic and subscriber growth complicate the broader traffic story.

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ChatGPT Shopping is pulling more product picks from what it calls feed-integrated sources, and store visibility moved too.

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Google added documentation mapping regional Search features in the EEA, Türkiye, and South Africa, with eligibility and participation steps.

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AI visibility tools track brand mentions and citations, but marketers need outcome data to know what those movements mean and what to do next.

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Google rolled out redesigned Search results in the EEA, reworking aggregator units and adding supplier units for hotel, flight, transport, and product queries.

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A UK news site's trending-query visibility collapsed after moving from .co.uk to .com, and the new domain didn't pick up what the old one lost.

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