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Google Turns Product Reviews Into a Programmable Shopping-Visibility Feed
Google has turned product reviews into a programmable Merchant Center data source. Merchants can now use the Merchant API to create or update individual product reviews, retrieve t...
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Google Can Now Freeze New Reviews When Its Spam System Detects an Unnatural Spike
Google is giving Business Profile owners a clearer warning when its anti-spam systems decide that a sudden burst of reviews looks suspicious. A newly observed email tells businesse...
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Google Business Profiles May Be Losing the Button Businesses Need to Close a Location Correctly
Some Google Business Profile owners are reporting that one of the platform’s most basic location-management controls has disappeared: the option to mark a business as “Permanently....
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Google Store Ratings Are Now Explicitly Local: Reviews From One Country Don’t Build Eligibility in Another
Google has made the requirements behind Store Ratings considerably more explicit, and the most important clarification for international ecommerce businesses is geographic: reviews...
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Spammers Are Using Google’s Own NotebookLM Pages to Hijack Search and AI Overviews
Google’s NotebookLM is being turned into an unlikely parasite SEO host. Public notebook pages are appearing in Google Search for spam-oriented queries covering coupon codes, peptid...
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Google’s AI Overview Links Are Starting to Keep Users Inside Google’s AI Funnel
A link inside a Google AI Overview no longer necessarily means a click to the open web. In a newly documented test, Google is displaying normal-looking anchor links near the bottom...
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Google Discover Inserts an AI Summary Before the Publisher Click
Google is testing a new Discover experience that adds another layer between a piece of content in the feed and the publisher behind it. The feature, called “Dive deeper,” opens a G...
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Your AI Visibility Dashboard May Be Measuring the Wrong Reality: Chatbot Interfaces and APIs Barely Share the Same Sources
AI visibility dashboards are increasingly being sold as the generative-search equivalent of rank trackers: enter a set of prompts, monitor which brands and domains appear, and use....
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Tottubella.com Becomes WikiSardinia.com: Building a Global Gateway to Sardinia
Tottubella.com is entering a new phase under the WikiSardinia.com name, as the Sardinia-focused website becomes part of a broader international publishing project designed to cover...
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Data Broker Removal Is Never Finished: Why Deleted Personal Data Keeps Coming Back
Deleting a personal profile from a data broker can feel like a clean ending: the listing disappears, the opt-out confirmation arrives, and a search that once ex...
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The Agentic Web Splits in Two: Shopify Opens Its Catalog to Meta Muse While Amazon Blocks the Door
The agentic web is beginning to divide along a line more consequential than whether companies believe AI shopping will happen. The emerging question is who gets to decide how an au...
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