Google Ads will update its advertising policies to allow ads for Prediction Markets starting on January 21, 2026. This will be allowed in the United States, but only for federally regulated entities.

Microsoft Bing is testing a new home page design where it promotes its AI-powered search and answer engine, Copilot. It seems to be a limited test and is not fully live yet, but it is a big change to the home page, which normally has the Bing custom background, search box, and the news feed below.

Last November, Google announced it was dropping support for a number of structured data types and search features. One of those was practice problem structured data types, and now, Google has removed the help documentation along with it.

A month ago, Google added LLMs.txt files to many of its developer and documentation sites including the Search developer docs. As you know, Google pulled it off the Search developer docs within a day or so but the LLMs.txt files still remain on many of Google’s other sites.

B2B marketing performance is often misunderstood because teams evaluate channels using a single lens. Traffic volume, lead counts, or cost per lead are commonly used as primary success metrics, yet these indicators rarely tell the whole story. The more meaningful insight comes from understanding how referral sources behave across the funnel. Some channels reliably generate…

AI can accelerate content production, but removing human expertise undermines the strategic infrastructure brands rely on to be found and trusted.
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Google quietly published a research paper that shows how to improve recommender systems like Google Discover and YouTube.
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