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ChatGPT Already Knows Who It’ll Recommend Before It Searches via @sejournal, @suganthan

2026/08/14

ChatGPT names brands in its own search queries before it fetches anything. Being in that query is worth 33 times more. The post ChatGPT Already Knows Who It’ll Recommend Before It Searches appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Google Ads Language Targeting Update Coming In September

2026/08/14

Google Ads will roll out a change to language targeting that will remove the ability to manually adjust the language setting. This change is happening next month, in September 2026

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Google Ads Language Targeting Update Coming In September

2026/08/14

Google Ads will roll out a change to language targeting that will remove the ability to manually adjust the language setting. This change is happening next month, in September 2026

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Google AI Overviews With AI-Generated Images In The Wild

2026/08/14

A month ago, we reported that Google said it would be rolling out AI-generated images within AI Overviews in Google Search. Well, it seems Google is starting to roll out those AI-generated images in AI Overviews this week.

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Google Merchant Center For Agencies Can Link Up To 1,000 Accounts

2026/08/14

Google updated a help document within the Google Merchant Center help area to document that Google Merchant Center for Agencies can now link to up to 1,000 Merchant Center accounts. Previously, that number was not there, and now we know – up to 1,000 accounts can be linked to a single agency account.

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Googlebot Say They Are Coming From California But Might Not

2026/08/14

As we know, Google has often declared that its crawlers, Googlebot, etc, come from Mountain View, California. But the truth is, that is where they self-declare the bots are coming from.

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Google Local Report Owner Response

2026/08/14

Google has a new reporting option for reviews in Google Business Profiles and Google Local. This one is called “Report owner response.” It lets you tell Google if an owner response to a review is off-topic, contains profanity, is harassing, discriminatory, hateful, or includes personal information.

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Google Is Removing Language Targeting From Search Campaigns via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson

2026/08/13

Google Ads is changing language targeting for Search and Performance Max in September 2026. Learn what’s changing and what advertisers need to know

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The GEO Trust Gap: SEOs Want The Data, But Not The Platforms Selling It via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester

2026/08/13

Practitioners value AI visibility data highly and won’t fund the platforms selling it. New survey data on what’s actually blocking the category. The post The GEO Trust Gap: SEOs Want The Data, But Not The Platforms Selling It appeared first on Search Engine Journal

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The PPC Clean-Up: How to Audit and Fix ‘Value Inflation’ in Google Ads

2026/08/13

PPC managers inheriting an account: verify the conversion value before touching the bid strategy. Five checks that separate real revenue from phantom value

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