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Google AdSense has added additional triggers for vignette ads. There are now a total of six triggers, three old ones and three new ones. These new triggers took effect on February 9, 2026.…

Google is rolling out UCP, Universal Commerce Protocol, powered checkout in AI Mode. This launched as part of the Google Ads news from yesterday, and you can now see it in AI Mode for products from Etsy and Wayfair.…

Asad Awan, who is in charge of monetization at OpenAI was interviewed by his own company on “The Thinking Behind Ads in ChatGPT.” It is a 25 minute interview and one part he discusses how he would like to see …

The Google Chrome team announced its early preview of WebMCP, “a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your side with increased speed, reliability, and precision,” André Cipriani Bandarra from Google wrote.…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……

Earlier this month, we reported that Google updated two of its help documents around Google’s crawler file size limits. Well, Google made a clarification to one of those documents the other day after some confusion within the SEO industry.…

Google announced a number of updates to help people find and remove personal information and sensitive imagery about themselves from Google. But you would need to give Google this information first, so Google can find it and then remove it.…

A couple of weeks ago I reported Bing was beta testing a new AI performance report within Bing Webmaster Tools. These reports are now available as a public preview for all to see. Plus, Bing Webmaster Tools has a whole …

Google will stop showing the business short names on Google Business Profiles in Search and Google Maps. The short name will still work, if you have one, but going forward, the link in your Google Business Profile will no longer …

Google added a new button to the top stories section of Google Search named “Sign in to customize.” This leads users who are not logged into Google to sign in, so those users can configfure there preferred sources in Google …

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……

I am seeing some early signs of yet another unconfirmed Google Search ranking update with more volatility touching down today, February 10th. The chatter within the SEO community is starting to spike, and some of the third-party tracking tools are …

Microsoft Bing is testing a dynamically loading results count under the search box. So when you enter your search phrase, the results count will dynamically count up from 0 to the number of results found.…

Google appears to be testing showing the citation favicon site icons at the bottom of the answer in AI Mode. This is in addition to where it normally shows those icons, at the top right of the card stack, on …