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Google's Agentic Commerce Push: UCP Checkout, AI Share of Voice and a Business Agent Inside YouTube Ads
Sep 16, 2026 · 6 min read · Paul Lovell
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Google Has Documented Its Replacement for the Custom Search API — and You Can't Have It
Sep 16, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell
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Search Live Now Runs on Gemini 3.8 Live — and It's Available to Everyone
Sep 16, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell
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Chrome Just Put Your Ad Load on the Public Record — and ads.txt Decides Whether You're In It
Sep 16, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell
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Google Business Profile Post Views Are Back After Three and a Half Years — With Search and Maps Merged Into One Number
Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell
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Two GEO Experiments Found PR Produced 0.2% of AI Citations. Third-Party Listicles Produced 85.8%.
Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell
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Google Says It Can't Report AI Search Properly Yet — and Is Asking the Industry for Ideas
Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell
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Ads Appear on 29% of Commercial AI Mode Queries — and the Advertiser Usually Isn't a Source
Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell
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Google Has Started Paying Some Publishers When Their Content Feeds AI Answers
Sep 14, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell
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Apple Maps Ads Are Six Weeks Old and the First Performance Reports Are Landing
Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell
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A DeepMind Paper Says One Model Can Replace the Two-Stage Ranking Pipeline. It Is Not in Google Search.
Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell
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Only 13.9% of Bloggers Report Strong Results — and AI Isn't the Reason
Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell
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Google Ads Will Now Bid More for Your Loyalty Members — If You Hand Over the List
Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell
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Google Analytics Finally Has Dashboards Again
Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell
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Google Has Put a Number on Your First-Party Data — and It's Selling the Number
Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell
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Merchant Center Product Videos Are an Organic Surface, Not Just an Ads Asset
Sep 14, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell
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AdSense Is Now Picking Your Consent Message Based on Revenue
Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell
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Google Can Lose Faith in a Whole Site, Not Just the Bad Pages
Sep 11, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell
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Search Console's Missing June Data Isn't Coming Back
Sep 11, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell
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Amazon Opens ChatGPT Ads to Its Advertisers — While OpenAI Shuts Rivals Out
Sep 11, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell