Seer Interactive says brand-cited AI Overview CTR fell 61% as impressions grew faster than clicks across cited pages.

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Google’s Liz Reid told Bloomberg AI Overviews cut “bounce clicks,” not deeper visits, but Google still hasn’t shared data backing that claim.

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Google documents deep link best practices and signals robots.txt doc expansion. The EU proposes Google share search data with rivals and AI chatbots.

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Google may expand its unsupported robots.txt rules list using HTTP Archive data and could broaden how it handles common misspellings of disallow.

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OpenAI's public crawler docs now list OAI-AdsBot, a bot that may visit pages submitted as ChatGPT ads to check policy compliance and ad relevance.

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Google adds view-through conversion optimization to Demand Gen and expands Commerce Media Suite support.

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Google posted a GEO Partner Manager role in its ads sales organization, using “Generative Engine Optimization” terminology in an ads-side job description.

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Digiday reports an early ChatGPT ads manager build now shows $3-$5 CPC bids for some pilot advertisers, as OpenAI continues expanding its ad tools.

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Google Ads now enables call recording by default for eligible AI-qualified call leads, changing how call conversions are evaluated in the U.S. and Canada.

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The European Commission proposed Google share data with rival search engines and qualifying AI chatbots in the EU/EEA.

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Google has outlined best practices that can increase the likelihood of "Read more" deep links appearing.

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Stanford's 2026 AI Index covers 400+ pages of data. Here's what search professionals should take from the adoption numbers, reliability gaps, and transparency decline.

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Google is updating AI Mode in Chrome with side-by-side page viewing and a plus menu for adding tabs, images, and files as context.

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New Ahrefs data shows Reddit pages appeared often in ChatGPT retrievals but rarely as visible citations.

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Gen Z workers surveyed by Gallup said they would trust work done without AI over AI-assisted output by more than 2-to-1, with the gap widening.

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IAB's annual report shows search ad growth fell while social media and digital video posted stronger year-over-year gains.

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