Digital Marketing
Waze Ads Expand: 41 Markets Added, No Announcement Made
Google rewrote one Note on its Performance Max for store goals help page on September 4, and turned it into…
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Author: Alex Savich
SEO
Gemini 3.8 Flash Hits AI Mode: Citations Break, Then Return
Google rolled Gemini 3.8 Flash into Search’s AI Mode on September 2. By the next morning, SEOs were posting examples…
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Digital Marketing
Google Ad Tech Ruling: Court Rejects Breakup, Accepts Behavioral Fixes
Judge Leonie Brinkema on September 2 turned down the Justice Department’s push to break up Google’s ad tech business, rejecting…
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Digital Marketing
FTC Sues Amazon Over Hidden Ad Surcharges: Suit Says Sponsored Products Bidders Paid Their Own Bid
The FTC and 22 state attorneys general filed the Amazon ad surcharge lawsuit on August 31, alleging Amazon secretly inflated…
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SEO
Search AI Controls Go Worldwide: Every Site Gets an Opt-Out Toggle
Google’s Search AI controls and the Generative AI performance report have reached every website in the world. Google confirmed the…
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AI
EU Designates ChatGPT a VLOSE: Ad Repository Rules Due End of December
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE) under the Digital Services Act today, Monday 31…
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AI
Google AI Overviews Expand Automatically for Some Queries: Standard Results Drop Further Down
Google confirmed on August 28, 2026 that AI Overviews expand automatically for some search queries, loading at full length and…
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SEO
Google Site Reputation Policy Splits By Searcher Location: EEA Manual Actions Lift, Criteria Go Public
Google will stop letting site reputation abuse manual actions affect European Economic Area (EEA) searchers, starting August 30, 2026, per…
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E-commerce
Google Ads Tests a Product Titles Report: A Sample of Rewrites Already Served
A “Product titles” report has started appearing inside Google Ads, showing the product titles Google’s AI generated and served in…
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AI
X Ads MCP Ships: 10 of 23 Tools Write to Live Ad Accounts
X shipped X Ads MCP on August 24, 2026, an MCP server that hands AI agents 23 tools for a…
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