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The latest PPC Pulse highlights Microsoft’s bidding updates, Google’s expanded creative tools, and Nano Banana Pro’s availability inside Google Ads.
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How does Google’s AI Overview expand user queries? Tom Capper reveals 10 fan-out categories you can use to improve your prompt tracking and keyword research.

Most teams treat checkout drop-off like a creative problem. They swap button copy, add badges, or run another promo. That helps sometimes, but it rarely fixes the root cause. Checkout is a system. Your martech stack either shows you where it breaks, or it hides the break behind averages. If you cannot trust the data…

Node.js shows up in very different environments. A two-person startup building an MVP might use it. So might a global platform handling millions of API calls per minute. The runtime is the same in both cases. The surrounding engineering practices are not. Early-stage teams focus on speed. Ship the product, validate the idea, iterate quickly…

After testing 200,000 items in ChatGPT, Walmart found sharply lower conversions and will use its own integrated shopping experience.

Perplexity’s iOS browser defaults to Google for navigation and local queries, while its assistant handles summaries, research, and actions.

Microsoft is simplifying bidding by consolidating performance targets into streamlined automated strategies while keeping key controls intact.

Google’s UCP update shifts shopping to AI-agents, where product data — not just ads — will determine visibility and sales.

Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) is introducing new optional capabilities for merchants to support agentic commerce across the web.

Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol adds cart management and catalog access, highlights identity linking support, and begins simplifying Merchant Center onboarding.
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