TikTok releases its 2026 Discover List

The sixth iteration of the app’s annual roundup highlighted 50 top creators across five categories.

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Snapchat announces new awards show designed to spotlight creators

The Snappys will be hosted by Snap Star Matt Friend and include a lifetime achievement award for DJ Khaled.

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YouTube expands voice replies to all creators, adds new Shorts remix options

The platform also enhanced its Premium Lite subscription program as parent company Google looks to drive revenue for the business.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 25, 2026

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Google had a brief serving outage with Google Search this morning. Google AI Shopping is pushing more products. Google AI Mode has see more button for shopping results. Google Business Profiles verification flow should be used with caution. Anthropic updates its crawler documentation.

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Google Search Brief Serving Issue This Morning

Google had a brief issue with serving search results this morning…

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Search Engine Roundtable

How Google Discover qualifies, ranks, and filters content: Research

New SDK findings reveal why some pages never reach ranking, how pCTR predicts clicks, and why images and recency drive Discover traffic.

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Search Engine Land

Google Search Had A Brief Serving Issue This Morning

Google had a brief issue with serving search results this morning, February 25th. Google documented the issue at around 1:30 am ET on Wednesday, February 25th and said it was resolved a minute later.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google fixed a serving issue with search results

This seems like it was a brief outage over night.

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Search Engine Land

Anthropic clarifies how Claude bots crawl sites and how to block them

Anthropic explains how its bots handle AI training, live queries, and search results, and what opting out means for visibility.

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Search Engine Land

Google rolls out updates to image and video tool Flow AI

New features include an updated user interface, more intuitive editing tools and the ability to generate videos from images using text prompts.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

What 13 months of data reveals about LLM traffic, growth, and conversions

An analysis of LLM referral traffic shows low volume, rapid growth, shifting citations, and an 18% conversion rate.

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Search Engine Land

Anthropic Updates Its Crawler Documentation: ClaudeBot, Claude-User & Claude-SearchBot

Anthropic updates its crawler documentation explaining what its crawlers do, and what blocking them will result in. Anthropic has three primary bots and they include ClaudeBot, Claude-User and Claude-SearchBot.

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Search Engine Roundtable

How to read Meta Ads metrics like a system, not a scoreboard

Stop toggling off “losers” based on surface metrics. Analyze relationships between KPIs to pinpoint bottlenecks and drive sustainable growth.

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Search Engine Land

Google Business Profile Verification Flow Caution

Some time ago, Google updated the flow for the Google Business Profile verification. And the issue is, if you fill it out wrong, it can have consequences for that Google business listing in the future.

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Search Engine Roundtable

FBI investigates X over nude images generated by Grok

The artificial intelligence platform was also used to generate professional complaints, according to a report from 404 Media in collaboration with Court Watch.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

OpenAI COO says ChatGPT ad rollout will be “iterative”

OpenAI’s COO says ChatGPT ad rollout will be gradual and privacy-focused, as it tests monetization without compromising user trust.

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Search Engine Land

Google AI Mode See More Button For Shopping Results

Google is showing a "See more" button in some of the AI Mode results. This has been happening for almost the past month on desktop and probably mobile. It seems to come up more often for shopping related results, to load more products from the Google Shopping Graph.

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Search Engine Roundtable

How ChatGPT uses SEO to drive growth and revenue

An SEO audit of ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity reveals how the platforms use technical optimization, content, and conversions to scale.

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Search Engine Land

The AI writing tics that hurt engagement: A study

An analysis of 1,000+ URLs reveals which AI writing tics correlate with engagement. Some common “tells” don’t matter. A few might.

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Search Engine Land

Google AI Shopping Pushing More Products

Google’s AI Shopping tab is now pushing shoppers and searchers to find more products. The prompt responses to your queries can display "Show more products" and other links to get you to view more products.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Instagram’s connected TV app comes to U.S. Google TV devices

The expansion will allow users to watch Reels on their televisions and provide big screen viewing capabilities for Instagram content.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

5 OpenClaw agents run my home, finances, and code | Jesse Genet

Watch now | 🎙️ Jesse Genet, a mom of four, shares how she uses multiple OpenClaw agents to run her home school, build custom apps, organize her home, and reclaim her time

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Google to change budget pacing for campaigns using ad scheduling

Google’s new pacing update could increase monthly spend for ad-scheduled campaigns by pushing budgets harder within allowed run times.

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Search Engine Land

SEO Specialist ~ Dollar Loan Center ~ In-office (USA) ~ Las Vegas, NV, United States

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Local SEO Specialist

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