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Google is notifying sites with site reputation abuse manual actions that those actions will no longer affect search results in the European Economic Area, a change that took effect August 30, 2026.

Google has clarified how server-side redirects influence ranking signals and canonicalization.

AI Mode now links home service searches to booking and quote pages, and the article covers how businesses reach those pages and what partners say about lead fees.

Google is showing four ads stacked beneath some AI SEO answers in AI Mode, with ads from HubSpot, Yext, Siteimprove and eintelligenceweb observed, but Google has not said how widely the placement runs or whether it will continue.

Google can now show up to four ads in AI Mode responses for a single query, a placement the outlet notes may not be new given Google's earlier ad-count history.

OpenAI says ChatGPT handles a fifth of Google's search-like volume, Taboola cited AI summaries in a 6.9% revenue decline, and Anthropic signed its first news licence.

Shopify and WooCommerce merchants can accept terms that send their store catalogs to Microsoft Merchant Center, making their products appear in Copilot and Bing.

Reddit is testing logged-in-only access, which raises questions about search and AI visibility for brands that rely on Reddit conversations.

Amazon's new Shop Direct portal lets eligible stores list in its search at no cost, with merchants joining through several feed partners or Amazon's API.

ChatGPT's ad business is growing faster than evidence that its ads drive conversions, according to Digiday's analysis of roughly six thousand brands.

SERP data providers say Google limits goto redirect links per results page, so some rank tracking data may store Google redirect URLs instead of actual page URLs.

Bot protection blocked Blend's AI shopping agent at 29 of 200 retailers, with large retailers refusing it far more often than emerging ones.

An EU court adviser in a Google case has backed AI training on three conditions: honouring robots.txt opt-outs, skipping pirate sites, and proving anti-memorisation steps.

Google is bringing its UCP-powered direct checkout to AI Mode and the Gemini app for Canadian shoppers, with a Merchant Center integration planned for next year.

Google Search Console's performance report now lets users select multiple device types at once, extending the multi-select filter previously added for countries.

Microsoft has added agentic analytics, Ask Clarity, and an expansion of brand agents to its Clarity analytics tool, and says AI agents on the platform nearly doubled in three weeks to almost 2 million.

The UK Information Commissioner's Office has published 30 questions for AI agent builders, with responses due before November 20, covering session isolation, tamper-evident logs and six-part agent IDs.