Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how deep links appear in your snippets, how your robots.txt gets parsed, how agentic features work in Search, and how the EU’s data-sharing rules apply to AI chatbots. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Lists Best Practices For Read More Deep Links Google updated its ..
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Google updated their spam reporting documentation to make it clearer that spam reports are not wholly confidential and that it’s possible for personal identifiable information to be shared with the sites receiving a manual action. Change In Response To Feedback Google’s changelog noted that they were updating the spam reporting form based on feedback they’d ..
Google may expand the list of unsupported robots.txt rules in its documentation based on analysis of real-world robots.txt data collected through HTTP Archive. Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt described the project on the latest episode of Search Off the Record. The work started after a community member submitted a pull request to Google’s robots.txt repository ..
OpenAI’s public crawler documentation now lists OAI-AdsBot, a bot that may visit pages submitted as ChatGPT ads to check policy compliance and help determine ad relevance. The entry sits alongside OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, and ChatGPT-User on OpenAI’s crawler docs page, bringing the documented bot count to four. OpenAI states that OAI-AdsBot only visits pages submitted as ..
Google announced two updates to Demand Gen ahead of Google Marketing Live. View-through conversion (VTC) optimization is now available for Demand Gen campaigns in Google Ads. This setting lets campaigns optimize toward view-through conversions on YouTube. Google is also expanding Commerce Media Suite to support Demand Gen inventory in Google Ads. This adds Google Ads ..
Apr 23, 2026 Giancarlo Calzetta Approfondimenti, Attacchi, Attacchi, In evidenza, News, RSS 0 Vi ricordate il vecchio adagio “cambia la password almeno ogni sei mesi”? Ecco, da tempo ormai questa prassi e diventata tra quelle sconsigliate da molti esperti, ma resta ancora in auge in alcuni ambienti, tanto che, secondo le analisi di Forrester, ogni ..
Clicks as a ranking-related signal have been a subject of debate for over twenty years, although nowadays most SEOs understand that clicks are not a direct ranking factor. The simple truth about clicks is that they are raw data and, surprisingly, processed with some similarity to human rater scores. Clicks Are A Raw Signal The ..
Google’s Large Customer Sales team has posted a role titled “GEO Partner Manager, Performance Solutions” on Google Careers. The listing is a single job posting inside Google’s ads sales organization. The term “GEO” appears seven times across the listing, including the title. “Generative Engine Optimization” is spelled out twice. Other references include “GEO players,” “GEO ..
Apr 22, 2026 Redazione Attacchi, In evidenza, News, RSS, Tecnologia 0 Kyber è un gruppo ransomware relativamente recente che ha attirato un po’ di attenzione su di sé per le ultime operazioni condotte e una postura piuttosto esibizionista nel dark Web. Questa settimana, ha pubblicato un post a proposito di un attacco riuscito usando un ..
Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute published its 2026 AI Index Report. The report runs over 400 pages across nine chapters covering technical performance, investment, workforce effects, and public sentiment. The number getting the most attention is that Generative AI reached 53% adoption among the global population within three years of ChatGPT’s launch. That’s faster than ..