New third-party data shows local publishers lost national reach after Google's Discover core update.

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An analysis of ChatGPT conversations found the default and premium models cite almost entirely different sources for the same queries.

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Google Maps launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for local discovery in the U.S. and India, plus a navigation overhaul in the U.S.

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A survey of B2B decision-makers found peer recommendations are trusted nearly twice as much as AI chatbots, and white papers rank last for perceived value.

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A federal judge granted Amazon a preliminary injunction barring Perplexity's Comet AI agent from accessing Amazon accounts and ordering data destroyed.

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A study of U.S. workers finds 14% report "brain fry" from AI overuse. Marketing had the highest rate at 26%.

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Google's head of Search described how multimodal LLMs help Google understand audio and video, and discussed a direction for subscription-aware search.

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Google's AI Mode self-citations tripled in nine months. SE Ranking data shows that more links now lead to organic search results, not business profiles.

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NanoClaw's creator says Google ranks a fake website above his project's real site despite 18K GitHub stars, press coverage, and structured data setup.

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Google removed its JavaScript accessibility guidance from help documents, saying the advice is outdated and noting it has rendered JavaScript for years.

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