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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Google Analytics standard reports have shown zero traffic since 1 September, and Google has acknowledged the fault sits in its own reporting…
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The IRS dropped out of Google search this week because its own bot protection blocked Googlebot, and Cloudflare's new defaults on 15…
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Search Console emailed thousands of site owners on Monday claiming a new owner had been added, and it was a bug. Google…
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YouTube doubles the watch hours a new channel needs to start earning, from 4,000 to 8,000, effective February 2027. Google also banned…
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Google switches off Assistant from 4 September with no way to switch it back, handing every Android phone, watch and projected Android…
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Google Search Console can now report on your Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube posts, and it arrives just as zero-click searches hit…
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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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Google rankings wobbled again this weekend with no confirmed update, and Search Console can now track your Instagram, TikTok and YouTube content.…
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