Archive
Monday, October 5, 2026
Google’s Mueller Says AI Crawlers Access Sitemaps & RSS In His Logs via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Social media platforms resist UK safety disclosures
Google Is Fighting SERP Tracking. AI Agents May Make It Worse via @sejournal, @martinibuster
TikTok unveils AI-powered updates at Advertising Week
AI Cites Your Brand: How to Choose Your Next Move via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell
🎙️ How I AI: 8 real Jev use cases + How OpenAI uses ChatGPT Sites (live at DevDay!) + Claire’s DevDay recap
Google’s Hidden Data Layer: What Is It And What To Do About It via @sejournal, @demirie
TikTok announced new agentic AI-powered advertising products and expanded its global ad network to the US during Advertising Week.
Apprenticeships are the key to saving early-career marketing roles
How to turn customer signals into smarter email automation
How to maximize ROI with first-party data strategies
OpenAI product lead Kath Korevec discusses ChatGPT Sites internals, plugin ecosystem, and use cases in an interview on Lenny's Newsletter.
Google attributed its increased spam updates in 2026 to a surge in new content and revealed it is using AI to identify spam more effectively.
SERoundtable found that Google Ads occasionally display a duplicate 'About This Ad' button in some search results.
Google's Gary Illyes shared data showing typical versus slowest timelines for crawling, indexing, and serving.
Google Ads rolled out a beta AI tool that automatically localizes Search campaigns into new languages and regions.
OpenAI is testing a new visual ad format that appears when ChatGPT users generate images, rolling out this month to select US advertisers.
SOCi's 2026 Local Discovery Index finds AI adoption for local search jumped from 9% to 52% year-over-year, but 67% of users report receiving wrong information, pushing consumers to verify via reviews, social, and search before deciding.
Search Engine Journal analyzes Google's recent ranking signals to forecast what the next core algorithm update may prioritize.
Advertising Week New York 2026 emphasizes the shift from AI experimentation to enterprise implementation, with executives raising concerns about data trust, measurement, and security.