Nine Thousand Fake Articles and One New Rule: Search and Social Update, 11 October 2026
A network of about seventy fake local news sites published 8 913 AI written articles, and Anthropic has now banned the tactic…
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A network of about seventy fake local news sites published 8 913 AI written articles, and Anthropic has now banned the tactic…
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Google's September spam update took fourteen days to finish instead of the usual two, and it is now confirmed done. Manual penalties…
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New research found 67.66 percent of Google AI Overviews responses link out to a social platform. Google has also added a WhatsApp…
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Google showed its internal timings this week. A new page takes about 20 hours to find, a known page waits roughly 30…
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Google put an AI Overview on up to 90 percent of branded searches through September, so your own company name now returns…
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September was the month the free routes started closing. Facebook capped free business pages at two link posts a month, a WordPress…
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New quarterly data shows the top two Google results take 29 percent of clicks with no AI Overview and 10 percent with…
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Google has made AI Mode monitoring free and global, so Search now watches websites, forums and 60 billion products for changes on…
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Chartbeat has tracked two years of publisher data and found Google search referrals down 40.2 percent in the year to July 2026.…
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A WordPress patch was attacked in five hours and 350,000 sites are still unprotected. Facebook is capping free pages at two link…
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