Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers cause cache miss surges affecting human users, with 32% of network traffic automated and new cache architectures proposed.
by Luis Rijo
Google Maps displays defamation removal notices on German business profiles, showing how many reviews were removed in the past year under German defamation law.
Cyrus Shepard analyzed 400+ sites to find 5 features that predict whether a website gains or loses Google traffic in 2026, from products to proprietary assets.
A Shopify merchant traced 500+ fake carts per hour to a subdomain Shopify controls, exposing a structural gap that custom WAF rules and Cloudflare cannot close.
Google Ads replaces call duration metrics with AI-qualified conversions, filtering spam calls and feeding cleaner signals into Smart Bidding for US and Canada.
Bedrock Platform deploys the world's first containerized DSP bidder inside Index Exchange, eliminating QPS throttling and infrastructure as scale barriers.
ChatGPT ads reach logged-out users, IAB Tech Lab forms a programmatic governance council, SECURE Data Act targets state privacy laws, and Google resets its spam tools.
New log file analysis of 7 billion OpenAI bot events reveals a 3.5x surge in OAI-SearchBot activity after GPT-5, while ChatGPT user-driven events dropped 28%.
Google has brought its Gemini-powered Trends Explore page to mobile web, giving journalists and marketers real-time AI-assisted search trend research anywhere.