Feed-integrated retrieval accounted for roughly 65% of ChatGPT Shopping mode product recommendations as of late August, overtaking web search as the…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Sep 3 · · Engines, Research, AEO
Comscore has begun tracking sponsored links inside ChatGPT responses using opt-in user-panel data rather than synthetic test prompts, per PPC Land.
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 3 · · Engines, Research
Sensor Tower found ad density on ChatGPT rose 163% between April and August 2026, averaging 26% monthly growth, with about 1,200 unique advertisers active…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 3 · · Engines, Research
Gemini 3.8 Flash is now rolling out globally in Google Search's AI Mode, available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers through the model picker…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 2 · · Google Search, Engines
Google introduced agentic video understanding across Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite, letting the model dynamically scan and choose which…
Via Google DeepMind Blog ↗ · Sep 1 · · Engines
The largest public measurement of citation drift re-sampled 82,619 prompts weekly for 17 weeks, from December 17, 2025 to April 8, 2026, producing…
ChatGPT Ads reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate in under 200 days after launch, per OpenAI.
Via OpenAI News ↗ · Aug 31 · · Engines, Law & Money
Microsoft now requires users to sign in to reach Copilot directly, whether at copilot.microsoft.com or via the Copilot button on Bing's homepage, per…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 31 · · Engines, AEO
The European Commission said Monday it designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE) under the EU's Digital Services Act, alongside Reddit…
Via EU Commission Digital ↗ · Aug 31 · · Law & Money, Engines
An agent arriving at a site raises three questions in order: who are you, may you read this, and may you buy.
Via Agentic Commerce Protocol ↗ · Aug 30 · · Research, Engines, AEO
On September 15 Cloudflare sets new defaults for the three crawler classifications it introduced in July.
Via Cloudflare Blog ↗ · Aug 30 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors, AEO
GreyNoise reported on August 28 that scanners forging AI-crawler names probed the open web for credential files from 824 addresses across 795 separate…
Via GreyNoise ↗ · Aug 30 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Two measurements published nine days apart describe the same mechanism, and neither one names the other.
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 30 · · Engines, AEO, Research
Microsoft is testing a rename of the AI answer box atop Bing Search results, from Copilot Search to AI Overviews — the term Google uses for its own AI…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 27 · · Engines, AEO
When Cloudflare launched Bot Preference Sync on August 21 it set four conditions a crawler doing both search and training must meet to keep reaching sites…
Via Cloudflare Blog ↗ · Aug 27 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Promptwatch put per-engine numbers to Reddit's citation decline on August 20: its share of ChatGPT Search citations fell from an average 3.83% (July…
Via Promptwatch ↗ · Aug 20 · · Research, Engines, AEO
Adthena analyzed nearly 850,000 US and UK AI search queries from March to May 2026 and found retail and fashion queries drew 39% of observed US ad…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 24 · · Engines, Research
Google added experimentation and planning features to AI Max for Search campaigns on August 21, including multi-campaign A/B testing arriving in…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 22 · · Engines, Google Search
OpenAI added a campaign-level control letting advertisers include or exclude iOS App, Android App or Web from ad delivery, a lever absent since ChatGPT…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 21 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
OpenAI now preselects "Maximize results," an automated bidding strategy, for new ad groups in ChatGPT Ads Manager Beta, per PPC Land.
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 21 · · Engines
OpenAI's ChatGPT Ads Manager now surfaces view-through conversions as a standalone column with a fixed one-day attribution window, measured from ad…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 19 · · Engines
Google rolled out AI-powered study features across Search and Gemini on August 19, timed to the U.S. school year.
Via Google Keyword Blog ↗ · Aug 19 · · Google Search, Engines
Promptwatch found Reddit's share of ChatGPT Search citations fell from an average of 3.83% (Jul.
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 19 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors, AEO
OpenAI expanded ChatGPT Ads into 31 additional European markets on Aug. 19, including Germany, France, Spain and Italy, bringing the pilot to roughly 40…
Via OpenAI News ↗ · Aug 18 · · Engines, Law & Money
Mozilla added Startpage as a built-in search engine option in Firefox 154 for Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, and Switzerland, replacing the…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 18 · · Engines
Google made Gemini in Chrome available to all Android users in the U.S. on August 18, 2026, per the company's own announcement.
Via Google Keyword Blog ↗ · Aug 18 · · Engines, Google Search
Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% from February through mid-August 2026, compared with the period when its free 12-month Pro offer via Airtel was…
Via TechCrunch AI ↗ · Aug 18 · · Engines, Law & Money
OpenAI added Mexico and Brazil to ChatGPT Ads on August 17, its first Spanish- and Portuguese-language markets, bringing the total to nine countries, per…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 17 · · Engines, Law & Money
OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT ads to the European Economic Area and Switzerland later this month, limited to Free and Go plans with personalized targeting…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 16 · · Engines, Law & Money
Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash in AI Mode for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in English, Google's Robby Stein said, per Search Engine Land…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 14 · · Google Search, Engines
OpenAI is testing a descriptive heading displayed above ads that appear within ChatGPT responses, per Search Engine Roundtable, which spotted the test but…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 12 · · Engines
Anthropic began embedding invisible watermarks in Claude-generated text and signed provenance metadata in generated files on August 2, 2026, to comply…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 11 · · Engines, Law & Money
Google says the Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, calling it the fastest-growing product in the company's history.
Via Google Keyword Blog ↗ · Aug 11 · · Engines
Perplexity has blocked markdown ads that Time began running in the agent-readable versions of its pages, calling the practice deceptive, per Digiday.
Via Digiday Media ↗ · Aug 11 · · Engines, AEO
A study by SE Ranking of more than 50,000 commercial prompts across 20 niches found ads appeared on 25.94% of them, with 14.35% of those ads unrelated to…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 10 · · Engines, Research
OpenAI is testing a multi-product carousel format for ChatGPT product feed ads and will launch ChatGPT Ads in Brazil and Mexico in the coming week, per…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 7 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
Disney has started testing AI-powered features on two flagship platforms: natural-language search for sports questions on ESPN, and a voice- and…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 7 · · Engines
Google will remove Google Assistant from Android phones, tablets, and paired devices like smartwatches and headphones starting September 4, 2026, per an…
Via The Verge AI ↗ · Aug 5 · · Engines, Google Search
Google expanded Gemini Spark's Chrome integration on July 30, 2026, letting the AI assistant use saved passwords and logged-in accounts to research and…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Jul 30 · · Engines, Google Search
OpenAI is testing a new "Agent" campaign type in ChatGPT Ads Manager that sends users into a Business Agent conversation instead of to the advertiser's…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Jul 31 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
OpenAI rolled out a batch of ChatGPT Ads updates, including optimized cost-per-click campaigns that bid toward likely conversions, geographic exclusion…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Jul 24 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
OpenAI added tooltips to the conversions column in ChatGPT Ads Manager showing conversion values for view-through and click-through attribution, per…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Jul 23 · · Engines
On Alphabet's Q2 earnings call, Sundar Pichai named coding as an area to improve and said Google needs Gemini 4 for the next frontier — with Gemini 3.5…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 23 · · Engines
Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is rolling out in Search, powering agentic search experiences and likely AI Overviews and AI Mode, per Search Engine…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Jul 22 · · Google Search, Engines
Microsoft added four AI-performance capabilities in preview to Bing Webmaster Tools — Intents, Topics, Citation Share and Compare — extending its AI…
Via Bing Blogs ↗ · Jun 16 · · Engines, AEO
