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Google’s Search Volume Is About 5x ChatGPT’s, OpenAI Says

ChatGPT's search-like queries equal about a fifth of Google's volume, its maker says, counting each question that sends it to the web. Traffic data differs.

Google’s Q3 2026 Earnings Call: Search & AI Are Merging Into One Unified Product

SEOs, buckle up. Google says expect rapid improvement from recursive self-improvement, and Search is becoming an agent manager.

Google Ad Tags In Server-Side GTM To Get Full IP Addresses

Google says ad tags in server-side Tag Manager will accept full IP addresses while Analytics tags stay redacted. Here's what changes and how to redact.

How To Create Demand You Can Actually Convert (And Prove)

Discover effective strategies to generate demand and measure results for your B2B marketing campaigns successfully.

Rank Trackers Find Google Results About One Word Of A Query

Rank tracker data shows unrelated Google results that follow one word of the query, mostly below the top spots. Here's how to check a drop.

Google Favors High Ad Strength RSAs, But Lower-Rated Ads Convert Better

Google serves higher-rated responsive search ads more often, yet Brad Geddes’ 5,900-account study finds they convert better only 45% of the time. Pinning explains why.

Building A Global Content Factory With AI (Without Losing The Human Touch)

Scale an AI content factory without erasing local relevance by grounding each market's pages in approved facts, local evidence, and human judgment.

Google Says It’s Okay To Block Some JavaScript Resources With Robots.txt

Google's John Mueller said it's okay, within a specific use case, to use robots.txt to hide resources from Googlebot.

Google Lighthouse Update Changes How PageSpeed Insights Simulates Loading

A Google Lighthouse update changes how PageSpeed Insights simulates page loads, which can raise lab scores on pages that haven't changed.

NY Times Accuses Brave Of Scraping And Exploiting Content

New York Times lawsuit accuses Brave of selling access to paywalled content to AI companies and depriving publishers of ad income.

TikTok Search Ads Adds Brand And Category Keyword Packs

TikTok is highlighting two impression share metrics for Search Ads and adding curated keyword packs. Here's what each does.

AI Shopping: Get Your Products Found In Google & ChatGPT

Chris Sachs & Aris Vrakas outlined 4 moves for AI shopping: make product pages retrievable, use shopper language, connect feeds with pages, test the results.

How The Athletic Gets More Clicks With One Simple Trick

Clickability isn’t just headlines and images. Showing readers which articles other readers are talking about is a distribution lever most publishers ignore.

Google Says No AI Click Reporting News Yet, Ahead Of UK Deadline

Google says it has nothing to announce on adding more AI search data to Search Console, ahead of a UK compliance date.

How To Run A Full-Funnel Ecommerce Account Through BFCM Week

Build demand before BFCM, give Google room to capture peak sales, and turn holiday visitors into December buyers with a phased ad strategy.

Google Search Ad Visits Out-Earned ChatGPT Ads In U.S.

Data finds ChatGPT ad visits brought advertisers a fraction of paid search's revenue per visit in U.S. traffic, and most saw no sales from them.

3 AI Models Shopped Shopify’s Catalog – Each Picked A Different Winner

Google rankings are a black box a store can still watch. The AI shopping decision layer is a black box with nothing to monitor.

Google Says Technical SEO Remains Key For AI SEO

Google's John Mueller cautioned against relying on short-term AI SEO tactics and explained why traditional technical SEO remains relevant.

Google, Microsoft & OpenAI Plan To Honor Shared AI Training Opt-Out

A shared robots.txt line could let sites opt out of AI training with several providers at once, but companies involved are handling it differently.

Hackers Hijacked DebugBear’s DNS To Serve Malicious JavaScript

DebugBear told customers to remove its Core Web Vitals monitoring script. Site owners should also check exposed accounts and unauthorized changes.

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