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Rajan Patel wrote on X that disabled source clicks on Google Discover AI summaries were a bug in an experiment that...

In breathless press releases and posts, the company has touted its models’ ability to deliver scientific...

Bradley Keefer, Chief Revenue Officer, Keen Decision Systems The advertising industry has a talent problem...

Google Search has just updated its favicon documentation to now specify that Googlebot must be able to follow...

Why would a smart tool search provider keep trusting information a brand hides from its own website? The...

Bolted on: fixed to something after the fact, rather than designed in from the start. It's a carpenter's phrase...

Your team faces a brand crisis before anyone finds the original post.

Buyers now ask chatbot, Gemini, and Perplexity for recommendations before they ever open a search results page...

The way people search for information is changing. Instead of scrolling through a list of blue links, more users...

Google is testing AI Mode ads informed by connected Gmail and Photos data, as its privacy policy adds an exception...

The 2026 Digiday Awards winners reflect a media and marketing landscape in which cultural relevance...