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Google is testing ads in AI Mode that use connected Gmail and Photos data, after its privacy policy added an exception for ad personalization.

SERoundtable reports a larger volatility spike and rising SEO community chatter around another unconfirmed Google Search ranking update over the past 24 hours, following a prior update reported the previous Saturday.

Rajan Patel said on X that disabled source clicks on Google Discover AI summaries were a bug in an experiment that has since been turned off.

Semrush published an update describing how it is addressing poisoned Google Search results, validating its ranking data, and investing in visibility for users.

Google's favicon documentation now states that Googlebot must be able to follow redirects from the homepage to the page where the favicon is specified, and those URLs must not be blocked by robots.txt or other means.

Seven publisher groups are asking the EU and Canada to act on AI search summaries, backing the SPUR telemetry standard and seeking a pledge at the Oct 29-30 Montreal declaration.

Looking things up now accounts for about as large a share of consumer ChatGPT messages as writing, though the increase is smaller than earlier data suggested.

Google's John Mueller downplayed how much the freshness of the Search Console page indexing report matters, telling people on Reddit to save their energy.

Pie, an AI-powered growth platform for SMBs, aims to offer smaller businesses affordable access to AI tools that are often built for larger budgets.

The share of ChatGPT requests devoted to writing fell from 34% to 21% since July 2024, while practical advice rose to 28.1% and coding help dropped to 4.6%.