Here are some of the latest headlines on digital marketing insights, search, and ecommerce:
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Cloudflare says its network signals helped OpenAI index hundreds of millions of new pages for ChatGPT search.
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Meta's Muse and OpenAI's dots reach websites through connectors or cloud browsers, changing what robots.txt, on-page SEO, and analytics can tell you.
Search's share of North American publisher pageviews fell to 12%, but a lower share alone doesn't show fewer search pageviews.
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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.