Feb 26
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Social media’s next chapter moves beyond feeds and platforms toward decision-making moments powered by behavior, trust, and machine interpretation.
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New Platforms Won’t Save Social Media: Here’s What’s Actually Shifting via @sejournal, @rio_seo
Some time ago, Google updated the flow for the Google Business Profile verification. And the issue is, if you fill it out wrong, it can have consequences for that Google business listing in the future.
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Careful With Google Business Profile Verification Flow
Feb 26
25
Google is showing a “See more” button in some of the AI Mode results. This has been happening for almost the past month on desktop and probably mobile.
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Google AI Mode See More Button
Anthropic updates its crawler documentation explaining what its crawlers do, and what blocking them will result in. Anthropic has three primary bots and they include ClaudeBot, Claude-User and Claude-SearchBot.
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Anthropic Updates Crawler Docs: ClaudeBot, Claude-User & SearchBot
Google’s AI Shopping tab is now pushing shoppers and searchers to find more products. The prompt responses to your queries can display “Show more products” and other links to get you to view more products.
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Google AI Shopping Pushing Show More Products
Google had a brief issue with serving search results this morning, February 25th. Google documented the issue at around 1:30 am ET on Wednesday, February 25th and said it was resolved a minute later.
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Google Search Brief Serving Issue This Morning
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 24, 2026
Don’t let AI SEO fail in the boardroom. Align leadership, metrics, and ownership before scaling tactics.
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AI-SEO Is A Change Management Problem via @sejournal, @Kevin_Indig
Technical SEO “best practices” increasingly reflect CMS and plugin defaults, not individual site decisions, according to 2025 HTTP Archive analysis.
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Web Almanac Data Reveals CMS Plugins Are Setting Technical SEO Standards (Not SEOs) via @sejournal, @chrisgreenseo
Microsoft has implemented and continues to deploy mitigations against prompt injection attacks in Copilot, the company announced last week. Spammers were using the “Summarize with AI” type of buttons to trick AI engines into believing or trusting a specific company or response.
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Microsoft Thwarts AI Prompt Injection Attacks Aimed To Manipulate AI Engines