Here are some of the latest headlines on digital marketing insights, search, and ecommerce:
Meta removed training from the crawling clause in its upcoming Commercial Terms. The permission to crawl sites tied to business users is still in place.
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A Chinese AI lab opened its search engine to developers. Each result carries a page-level authority tier, and DeepSeek says it filters GEO manipulation.
A model can recite your brand’s description and still fail the buyer’s question. Research on training data shows why “knowing” is the hard part.
Researchers posted about a made-up concept on sites AI search tools cite. Four English-web tools cited it within a week. Other topics mostly didn't land.
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A paper tested whether Google results and OpenAI's API can stand in for ChatGPT's citations. They matched cited sites more often than the exact pages.
Google removed the Indexing API approval form and steps from its docs. Default quotas are listed, but the pages don't say how to request more.
A rank tracker logged Google pages missing their usual sites, some ChatGPT links lost tracking tags, and Google and Bing changed AI search links.
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.
ChatGPT-attributed traffic fell sharply in several analytics datasets this month, and analysts tie the drop to ChatGPT links that open without tracking tags.
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.
Google flips its default from ranked results to AI answers when answer-layer ad yield matches the SERP. That crossover lands between 2028 and 2030.
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