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Social media’s next chapter moves beyond feeds and platforms toward decision-making moments powered by behavior, trust, and machine interpretation.
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Google had a brief issue with serving search results this morning, February 25th. Google documented the issue at around 1:30 am ET on Wednesday, February 25th and said it was resolved a minute later.

Google’s AI Shopping tab is now pushing shoppers and searchers to find more products. The prompt responses to your queries can display “Show more products" and other links to get you to view more products.

Anthropic updates its crawler documentation explaining what its crawlers do, and what blocking them will result in. Anthropic has three primary bots and they include ClaudeBot, Claude-User and Claude-SearchBot.

Google is showing a “See more" button in some of the AI Mode results. This has been happening for almost the past month on desktop and probably mobile. It seems to come up more often for shopping related results, to load more products from the Google Shopping Graph.

Some time ago, Google updated the flow for the Google Business Profile verification. And the issue is, if you fill it out wrong, it can have consequences for that Google business listing in the future.

This seems like it was a brief outage over night.

In the past, international trade was often bogged down by cumbersome processes: time-consuming email exchanges, delays caused by time zones, and factory inspections that required days or even weeks of planning. Today, with the full penetration of the mobile internet, the rules of cross-border trade are being rewritten. Data shows that an increasing number of […]

New research shows Commercial Analytics Emerging as Primary Source of Truth Among $1B+ Advertisers Analytic Partners, the leader in Commercial Analytics, released Five Forces Shaping Marketing Budget Decisions in 2026. Grounded in a verified sample of 455 senior decision-makers at enterprise-level ($1B+) advertisers, the report sets the standard for enterprise-wide decisioning by revealing how top brands are […]