Microsoft Clarity launched Bot Activity tracking on January 21, 2026, revealing which AI systems crawl websites and how automated traffic affects infrastructure performance.
by Luis Espada
Google Ads product managers reveal smart bidding best practices for 2026, covering Smart Bidding Exploration, journey aware bidding, and campaign total budgets.
Google AdSense replaces the ad load slider with advanced settings for banner ads on April 16, 2026, giving publishers precise control over ad count and spacing.
Google engineers reveal Googlebot is a misnomer for a central SaaS crawling platform serving dozens of products, with a 15 MB default file size limit and geo-crawling constraints.
House of Lords urges UK to reject commercial text and data mining exceptions, mandate AI training transparency, and build a fair licensing market for creative industries.
IAB Tech Lab today expanded its agentic advertising registry to 10 entries, adding Amazon, Burt Intelligence, Optable, Dstillery, and HyperMindZ.ai alongside three new deployment classifications.
A federal judge today barred Perplexity AI from using its Comet browser's AI agents to access Amazon's password-protected accounts, in a ruling with sweeping implications for agentic AI.
BLACKPINK's "GO" enters YouTube's Global Weekly Top Songs at #1 with 43M views, the group's first release in over three years. Full chart data across 15 territories.
IAB Tech Lab today released CoMP v1.0, a standardized protocol requiring AI systems to secure commercial agreements with publishers before crawling content. Open for public comment until April 9, 2026.