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fromSearch Engine Roundtable
1 day ago

February 2026 Google Discover Core Update Done Rolling Out

Google's February 2026 Discover Core Update completed rollout on February 27, prioritizing locally relevant content, reducing clickbait, and elevating in-depth original articles while reducing non-US publisher visibility in US Discover feeds.
Marketing tech
fromAdExchanger
2 weeks ago

When Conversation Becomes Inventory: How OpenAI Could Reshape Digital Advertising | AdExchanger

Conversational AI shifts advertising from persona-based targeting to real-time, prompt-driven intent, enabling dynamic, outcome-oriented ad assemblies and disrupting publisher revenue models.
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
3 weeks ago

Google February 2026 Discover Core Update

Google has released its first core update of 2026, which is focused on just Google Discover. Google named it the February 2026 Discover core update. This one is rolling over the next two weeks or so, just English language users in the US and at some point will roll out beyond that to all countries and languages. Google wrote, "This is a broad update to our systems that surface articles in Discover."
Online marketing
Media industry
fromNieman Lab
2 months ago

AI will probably force you to gate your content

AI systems like Grok are aggressively repurposing small publishers' archives into competitive, lightly-cited content, undermining niche publishers' traffic and control.
Gadgets
fromTheregister
5 months ago

Google reveals plan to go full AI browser with Chrome

Google is rapidly integrating Gemini AI throughout Chrome, turning it into an AI-first browser with features like AI summaries, omnibox AI Mode, and history-wide searches.
fromMashable
5 months ago

Is Google set to make AI Mode the default search experience? If it does, the internet may never be the same.

Move over, Google Search. AI Mode is here, and it isn't going anywhere. Rumors are currently swirling around when exactly Google's AI Mode will become the default search tool on Google's homepage, replacing the classic Google Search. As we move deeper into the AI search era, many search experts believe that AI mode will inevitably replace the list of links searchers are used to seeing.
Artificial intelligence
fromBlogher
6 years ago

Navigating AI-Powered Search: A Guide for Publishers on Google AI Overviews (AIO) - Blogging Tips & Events for Content Creators Everywhere | Blogher

Google's AI Overviews (AIO) generate extensive summaries from multiple sources for search queries, transforming Google into an Answer Engine rather than just a Search Engine.
Digital life
fromDomusweb
7 months ago

With Google's new AI search, links are obsolete - and someone's losing out

AI Overviews provides AI-generated summaries directly within search results, allowing users to access concise answers from online sources while reducing the need to visit original websites.
Artificial intelligence
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