Google is testing letting users view and modify their preferred sources list directly from within the AI Mode citations sidebar. There is a new button named “Source preferences” and when you click on it, it opens up your preferred sources list where you can add or remove preferred sources.
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Google AI Mode Citations With Preferred Source Preferences
OpenAI announced a number of product updates to ChatGPT Ads late Friday. These updates include new visual ad formats, a redesigned conversions page, performance emails, new measurement partners and a bug reporting / product feedback system.
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ChatGPT Ads New Ad Formats, Updated Conversion Page, Performance Emails…
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A paper tested whether Google results and OpenAI’s API can stand in for ChatGPT’s citations. They matched cited sites more often than the exact pages.
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OpenAI’s API Only Partly Matched ChatGPT’s Citations, Paper Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
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Google removed the Indexing API approval form and steps from its docs. Default quotas are listed, but the pages don’t say how to request more. The post Google’s Indexing API Docs No Longer Explain How To Get Approval appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google’s Indexing API Docs No Longer Explain How To Get Approval via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
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A rank tracker logged Google pages missing their usual sites, some ChatGPT links lost tracking tags, and Google and Bing changed AI search links. The post Rank Tracker Data, ChatGPT Tags & AI Search Links – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Rank Tracker Data, ChatGPT Tags & AI Search Links – SEO Pulse via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
New terms let Meta crawl sites tied to business users and use the content to train its products, widening rights ad buyers had already granted. The post Meta’s New Terms Expand Crawling Rights Beyond Advertisers appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Meta’s New Terms Expand Crawling Rights Beyond Advertisers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
The New York Times gives prime homepage space to free articles and tells readers they’re free.
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Why The New York Times Puts Free Content First
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If your new domain won’t index and there’s no technical fix, the problem may be originality.
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It’s Possible Your Migration Issues May Be Due To Site Quality via @sejournal, @marie_haynes
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 16, 2026
Google seems to be poisoning the third-party tracking tools with fake data and paywalls; this is wreaking havoc on keyword tracking. Google launched Gemini 4 Argon and it is in AI Mode.