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Chatbots Are Talking Your Customers Out of Buying: Search and Social Update, 9 September 2026

New survey data shows 57.5 percent of AI users have been talked out of a purchase by a chatbot, and nearly nine…

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The Citations Vanished: Your Search and Social Brief for 4 September 2026

Google put Gemini 3.8 Flash into AI Mode this week and the citations disappeared, which Google has now confirmed is a bug.…

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Sunday Brief: Google Has Stopped Fixing Your Broken Schema Code

Google has stopped tidying up badly escaped structured data, so rich results can disappear without a single warning. Reddit lost 86% of…

Google’s Third July Shake-Up, ChatGPT Ads for Everyone, and Search Console Goes Social

Google search rankings shifted for the third time this month and Google has confirmed nothing. Meanwhile ChatGPT opened self-serve ads to every…

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