Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Google has added four new ad experience metrics to the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) for publishers to track.

Cloudflare introduced a Disallow AI Training option that blocks AI crawlers from training data while preserving access for Googlebot and other search engines.

Meta is offering paid add-on packages for Meta One for Business that bundle AI tools and advanced analytics features.

Google upgraded its Search Live feature to run on Gemini 3.8 Live, its latest AI model.

Google added four experimental metrics to Chrome's user experience dataset to quantify ad density, count, and resource consumption on websites.

Google is testing new ad metrics—Ad Count, Ad Density, Ad Weight (Network), and Ad Weight (CPU)—in CrUX to measure page ad impact.

Salesforce unveiled Koa, a reasoning model trained specifically on CRM workflows, positioning specialized AI models alongside general-purpose ones for different marketing tasks.

Meta released two documents on Muse the same day, one omitting all mention of security risks while the other references attacks and prompt injection 39 times.

Search Engine Journal is hosting a September 22 webinar with OpenAI on how brands can sell products and generate leads through ChatGPT ads.

Search Engine Roundtable detected early indicators of a major Google Search algorithm update in progress.

SERoundtable reports unusual ranking volatility across Google Search, suggesting an unconfirmed algorithm update may be underway.

Google announced delays in processing applications for Google Business Profile API access.

Google is testing a new text-link ad format in AI Mode that mimics regular response text and links but carries a "Sponsored" label.

SERoundtable reports early performance data from Google Ads' August 17 bidding update, which caused community concern despite Google's assurances of minimal change.

Google has begun rolling out an Ecosystem carousel across European regions to showcase vertical search services as part of Digital Markets Act compliance.

Anthropic released prompting techniques designed to improve AI output quality and reduce token usage across various tasks.