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Anthropic Expands the Compliance API to Claude in Chrome Session Transcripts
Anthropic has expanded the reach of its Compliance API again, this time bringing Claude in Chrome session transcripts into the enterprise governance layer. The change, published in...
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Bing Says “Indexed” While Sites Vanish From Search: Is There a Reporting Gap?
A strange Bing visibility pattern is worth putting on the SEO industry's radar: webmasters are reporting sites that Bing Webmaster Tools still describes as indexed even though the....
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Anthropic May Answer OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra With a New Claude Model—The AI Model Cycle Is Accelerating Again
Anthropic is considering releasing another Claude model as competition among frontier AI labs accelerates again, according to Reuters. The important word is considering: as of Sept...
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Schema Is Becoming an Entity Layer for AI Search, Not Just a Rich-Result Tool
Schema markup is increasingly being treated as more than a mechanism for earning stars, FAQs or other enhanced search appearances. A new Search Engine Land case study argues for a....
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Google Says Search Profiles Are Expanding—and Confirms They Can Feed Knowledge Panels
Google Search Profiles are preparing to move beyond their initial U.S. launch, while Google is also clarifying how the new profile system interacts with one of Search's most import...
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John Mueller Spots an Unexpected llms.txt Problem: Crawlers May Discover the Files Through Third-Party Indexes
Google's John Mueller has pointed out an unexpected wrinkle in the growing debate around llms.txt: some of the crawler activity hitting these files may exist because third-party we...
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Google Web Guide Is Suddenly Appearing at the Top of the SERP—Is Something Changing?
Google's experimental Web Guide may be moving into a much more prominent position in the search results. On September 18, SEO consultant Glenn Gabe reported that Web Guide was appe...
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Google Ads Opens Commerce Audience Sharing Between Retailers and Brand Partners
Google Ads has published new documentation for Commerce Audience Sharing, a framework that lets retailers and marketplaces share selected first-party audience segments with adverti...
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Google Adds a New Structured Requirement for Adult Ecommerce Products
Google has made its requirements for adult-oriented ecommerce products much more explicit. Its Search Central guidance now tells merchants optimizing for Google Shopping features t...
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Google Quietly Opens Product Review Uploads Through the Merchant Center API
Google has quietly removed a significant automation limitation from Merchant Center: merchants can now upload and manage product reviews through the Merchant API. Until this docume...
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Google Quietly Expands Aggregator and Supplier Search Units to Local Businesses
Google has expanded its Aggregator and Supplier Search Units to a major new category: local business queries. The change, documented on September 18, 2026, means Google's EEA-speci...
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