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Audiense, the leading audience intelligence platform, unveiled its MCP (Model Context Protocol) connectors – seamless integrations that bring audience insights directly into AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT. This marks a major leap forward in how marketing, research, and strategy teams work with audience insights – making them accessible, actionable, and customizable, without a single […]

New offering delivers a full-funnel view of brand performance – measuring where your brand is seen and how much traffic it receives, versus competitors, from platforms like ChatGPT. Similarweb’s new GenAI Intelligence Toolkit is an innovative solution combining AI Brand Visibility and AI Traffic, letting companies see how they are represented on AI platforms and the […]

DatChat, Inc., a secure messaging and social media company, announced that the Canadian Patent Office has granted Canadian Patent No. 3,149,004, titled “Systems And Methods Of Transforming Electronic Content.” “We are continuing to build our global intellectual property portfolio covering our advanced digital privacy and other technologies. These patents are extremely important as we prepare […]

Google says images styled with CSS won’t be indexed in Image Search, advising developers to use HTML tags for important visuals.
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
We had even stronger Google search ranking volatility over the weekend…

I know I just reported on the super-heated Google Search ranking volatility week we had, and how the post-core update seems more unstable than during the June 2025 core update. However, we are now seeing even more volatility over the weekend, with some reporting reversals from the events of last week.

Google clarifies that soft 404 pages consume crawl budget, even when they return a 200 OK status. Here’s how this affects your site.
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@BGatesIsaPyscho Donald trump is fucking awesome, because he says what needs saying. He was telling him off there but in a completely non confrontational way. — Mike Martin (@MikeMartinGB) Jul 28, 2025 from Twitter https://twitter.com/MikeMartinGB July 28, 2025 at 01:51PM

The gap between traditional SEO and AI-first search is growing. Duane Forrester shows what to cut, what to keep, and what to start doing.
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@angel_0f_deathx None of them can be cured until the corrupt agencies running the so called charities are held to account, but they stopped him doing that. — Mike Martin (@MikeMartinGB) Jul 28, 2025 from Twitter https://twitter.com/MikeMartinGB July 28, 2025 at 01:29PM