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Google AI Overviews Now Cover 80% of Brand Searches

Google's AI Overviews jumped from 26% to over 80% of brand searches in September 2026. Here's what that means for how your business shows up on its own name search.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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The AI Validation Bottleneck: What Pantheon's Survey Shows

A new Pantheon survey of 1,000 marketing, engineering, and IT leaders finds manual validation, not AI itself, is now the top barrier to scaling AI at work.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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Google's Publisher Payments: What the AI Pilot Pays

Google has started paying about 100 invite-only publishers when their content significantly shapes AI Overviews, AI Mode, or Gemini answers: here's who qualifies, what it pays, and what to do if you weren't invited.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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Google's September Spam Update: What to Check Now

Google's September 2026 spam update is rolling out globally over two weeks, the longest of any 2026 update. Here's what actually changed and what to check before reacting.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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Google Search Profile Badge: What It Actually Does

Google's new Search Profile Badge links your site to your Search profile and Google Discover. Here's who actually qualifies and what to do about it this week.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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Cloudflare's AI Training Opt-Out: What to Change This Week

Cloudflare's new setting splits search crawling from AI-training crawling at the network level — here's what to change today and what it doesn't fix yet.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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Meta One Business Plans: What $14.99 to $499 Buys

Meta One's new business and creator tiers run from $14.99 to $499 a month, gating scheduling, analytics, and Business Agent access. Here's what each tier includes and who should actually pay for it.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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Google Search Console AI Reports Are Live Everywhere

Google's Search Console AI reports went live worldwide on 31 August, showing impressions from AI Overviews and AI Mode for the first time. Here's what the data does and doesn't tell you, and why most sites should leave the new opt-out toggle alone.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min
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GPT-Image-2.5 Is Out: What It Means for Ad Creative

OpenAI's GPT-Image-2.5 launched September 8, 2026 with faster generation and sharper editing, at exactly double the API price of GPT-Image-2. Here's what to check before you switch your creative pipeline over.

Prakhar Vohra·4 min