CleanTalk WordPress plugin, installed in 200,000+ websites, exposes sites to a critical vulnerability rated 9.8/10

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Antitrust filing argues Google cannibalizes audience visits to sites it uses to power AI results.

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A site owner blamed Google AI Search for falsely reporting their site offline. The answer was a content delivery pitfall.

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Google's Search Relations team discussed whether you still need a website in 2026, and outlined when social, apps, or the web make sense.

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Cloudflare launched Markdown for Agents, converting HTML pages to markdown automatically when AI crawlers request it through content negotiation.

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Google clarifies campaign consolidation guidance, saying performance and business logic matter more than legacy granularity in AI-driven Google Ads accounts.

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WordPress co-founder and Automattic are alleged to have planned to target at least ten competitors beyond WP Engine.

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Google's VP of Ads & Commerce published her annual letter previewing agentic commerce updates, AI Mode ad expansion, and creator-brand matching tools for 2026.

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Google's John Mueller explains how a leftover HTTP homepage invisible to Chrome users can cause site-name and favicon problems in search results.

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Google's Results about you tool now monitors Search results for government-issued IDs like passports, driver's licenses, and Social Security numbers.

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New data shows that most web pages fall well below Googlebot's two-megabyte crawl limit.

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Bing Webmaster Tools now shows publishers how often their content is cited in Copilot and AI-generated answers, with page-level data and grounding queries.

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OpenAI is testing ads in ChatGPT for free and Go tiers in the U.S. Ads appear below responses, labeled as sponsored. Paid tiers remain ad-free.

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The Washington Post's controversial strategy begins with a foundation, then adjusts based on what works.

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Google updated its "Get on Discover" docs, adding page experience guidance and naming clickbait and sensationalism, alongside the February Discover update.

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Google's John Mueller offered a simple solution to the question of whether a passage is indexed and is ready to rank.

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Google has started a Discover core update. The rollout may take up to two weeks, with expansion to more countries and languages later.

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Google is testing ads in AI Mode as Search revenue grew 17% to $63 billion. AI Mode queries run 3x longer than traditional searches.

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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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