Google Search Advocate John Mueller is pushing back on the idea of serving Markdown files to LLM crawlers.

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Google's crawl team filed a bug against WooCommerce for add-to-cart parameters wasting crawl budget. WooCommerce fixed it. Other plugins haven't.

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Google updated its Googlebot documentation to clarify file size limits, separating default limits that apply to all crawlers from Googlebot-specific details.

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WordPress published AI guidelines with five principles designed to encourage responsible use of AI.

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LinkedIn tested what drives AI search visibility and shared results. Content structure, expert authorship, and timestamps showed the clearest impact.

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A new proposal suggests using semantic HTML to label sections of a page that are AI generated to support EU compliance.

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Google's new documentation shows how to get traffic from their Top Stories search feature.

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WordPress announced a new AI agent skill that enables a clear feedback loop for AI, speeding up building and experimenting with WordPress.

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SparkToro research finds AI tools produce different brand recommendation lists more than 99% of the time when given the same prompt.

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Google's Eleanor Stribling reveals GA4's roadmap: full-funnel measurement platform within a year, then evolving into an AI-powered business decision platform.

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New research paper about creating a dataset for training deep research AI agents (SAGE) also provides SEO insights for content.

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Chrome's new AI features enable it to go shopping, plan trips, edit images in a browser window, and answer questions from a new side panel.

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Google says it's exploring new controls that would let websites opt out of AI search features specifically, as the UK CMA opened a regulatory consultation.

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Yahoo Scout offers a clean and uncluttered classic search experience with the power of natural language AI.

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Google is making Gemini 3 the default model for AI Overviews and adding a direct path to ask follow-up questions in AI Mode.

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Vulnerability in the popular WP Go Maps WordPress plugin affects affects up to 300,000 websites

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Sam Altman said OpenAI prioritized coding and reasoning in GPT-5.2 and "screwed up" writing quality. He says future GPT-5.x versions will address the gap.

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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Google doesn't have any current plans for ads in Gemini, as OpenAI moves toward ChatGPT advertising.

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Google's user intent extraction research shows how AI on mobile devices could be used to proactively assist users and automate tasks.

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BuddyPress WordPress vulnerability enables unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes

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TikTok's US spinoff to Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX has closed after a White House official said the US and China finalized the deal.

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10Web Photo Gallery plugin vulnerability enables unauthenticated attackers to delete image comments.

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Google's Personal Intelligence connects Gmail and Google Photos to AI Mode, delivering personalized responses for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

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Microsoft explains what matters for AEO and GEO and details three strategies that influence AI recommendations.

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Five things that any business can do to increase authoritativeness and earn more links

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A survey of 4,000+ CEOs from 95 countries finds 56% haven't seen revenue or cost benefits from AI.

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Shopify's Harley Finkelstein said agentic shopping surfaces products because they fit the user, not because brands can buy visibility.

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