Thursday, September 17, 2026

Pew Research finds a majority across 37 countries believe AI will cost more jobs than it creates, with the sentiment stronger in wealthy nations.

Google expanded its guidance for the Mediapartners-Google crawler to apply beyond AdSense contexts.

Pinterest announced visual search ads and an AI room redesign tool at its annual event.

A controlled test shows source order has less influence on AI citation patterns than surface metrics suggest, with structured rewrites playing a larger role in attribution.

An audit found Reddit's AI search algorithm disproportionately selects highly upvoted comments over authentic user experiences.

Google's Discover feature, which briefly rolled out to desktop Google.com in 2025, has disappeared and is no longer visible to users.

A federal judge rejected breaking up Google's ad tech business but ordered behavioral changes and oversight to address monopoly violations.

Google is converting local knowledge panels from Google Business Profiles into AI Overview format with expandable chat-style interfaces.

Microsoft is testing new labels on Bing product carousels to highlight Top Picks, Price Drops, Sales, and other attributes.

Google is testing hover-expandable Sponsored Places ads in search results.