Etsy's new native app within ChatGPT aims to be a conversational shopping experience for users.

Google's Nikola Todorovic said AI can act "like a kind of a black box" while explaining why machine learning was hard to deploy in Search.

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The move signals Google’s push to bring more advanced, conversational AI into the driving experience.

Aleyda Solis's Similarweb analysis of 10 markets shows that AI search clicks frequently redirect to local domains, with the distribution differing by industry.

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OpenAI crawl activity roughly tripled after GPT-5, with OAI-SearchBot now generating more log events than GPTBot.

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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 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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The proposal will be discussed at the an ISO meeting in Singapore, the first time held in ASEAN, bringing more than 35 national bodies and 250 AI experts.

Research on 68 million AI crawler visits show what SEOs should do to improve AI search performance

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