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Google's patent to replace your website with an AI page could change search forever
1+ hour, 27+ min ago (901+ words) Google's newly granted patent US12536233B1 reveals a system that scores landing pages and replaces low-quality ones with AI-generated pages personalized per user search history. A patent granted to Google, published on January 27, 2026, has drawn sharp attention from the search and advertising…...
Inside Google's search ad design engine: tests, assets, and AI in 2026
20+ hour, 40+ min ago (902+ words) Google's ad UI and UX leads reveal how search text ads are designed, tested, and evolving as AI Mode and Direct Offers reshape the search experience. The episode is notable for its specificity. Rarely do Google product and design figures…...
Gracenote bets big on AI: why Samsung and Google both need its TV data
21+ hour, 7+ min ago (444+ words) Gracenote's metadata deals with Samsung and Google reveal how structured entertainment data has become a critical input for AI-powered content discovery in 2026. The deal also extends beyond consumer-facing features. According to the announcement, Samsung gains the ability to use Gracenote's…...
Anthropic clarifies what its three web crawlers do - and how to block them
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (520+ words) Anthropic today updated its crawler documentation, detailing ClaudeBot, Claude-User, and Claude-SearchBot - what each collects and what blocking them means for site visibility. According to the updated documentation, Anthropic operates three distinct crawlers. Each carries a separate user-agent string, which in…...
Workers bet on AI to write articles, but the data shows cracks
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (719+ words) Article writing dominates AI automation with 35 million uses - 5x more than any other task. New Paligo research reveals where workers are really deploying LLMs, and where they aren't. The numbers are stark.Article and blog writingleads all categories with 35.3 million uses,…...
Clinch adds AI template catalog to Flight Control's digital asset library
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (217+ words) Clinch today launched a Creative Template Catalog inside Flight Control's Digital Asset Library, adding AI auto-tagging and atomic asset-level optimization for omnichannel ad campaigns. The feature also introduces what Clinch calls applied historical performance indicators at the atomic level. Rather…...
Google says letting publishers skip AI Overviews is a huge engineering challenge
1+ week, 1+ day ago (13+ words) Google says letting publishers skip AI Overviews is a huge engineering challenge'PPC Land...
Google tightens grip on screen time as Shorts timer hits zero
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1387+ words) Google announces parental controls for YouTube Shorts including zero-minute timers and School time mode for Android devices on Safer Internet Day 2026. Google this month expanded parental controls across YouTube and Android devices with features designed to limit children's exposure to…...
Open-source AI mapper speeds taxonomy migration in months-long manual process
1+ week, 3+ day ago (478+ words) IAB Tech Lab receives donation of AI-powered taxonomy mapper from Mixpeek, accelerating Content Taxonomy 2.x to 3.1 migration from weeks to seconds using TF-IDF and LLM methods. Taxonomies provide guardrails by defining vocabulary agents can reason over, retrieve against, and act…...
Microsoft shows marketers how AI search actually picks brands to recommend
1+ week, 3+ day ago (790+ words) Microsoft updates AI marketer's guide with technical explanations of how large language models surface brands through paid placements and organic visibility strategies. According to the announcement, the shift from keywords to conversations continues accelerating at a pace unlike anything the…...