TikTok announces 2026 Community Fest plans

The annual event, now in its third year, will focus on livestream creators and offers educational programming, competitions and fanbase celebrations.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Meta launches new legal action against spyware manufacturer

NSO Group’s Pegasus tool was used in a recent phishing attempt on WhatsApp, and Meta wants to hold the firm accountable.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Instagram hack impacted more than 20,000 users

Meta sent out notifications to the affected users, according to This Week in Security, but the incident highlights larger artificial intelligence vulnerabilities.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Meta walks back facial recognition in Meta AI app

The company had quietly added non-active elements, according to reporting from Wired, but removed the code shortly after the story dropped.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 8, 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 added a new help document on third-party tools, services and advice…

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Chrome Won’t Make AI Mode The Default Search Experience

Google has confirmed that the search company has no plans on making AI Mode the default search experience within Google Chrome. This comes after Chrome Canary added a new experimental flag that redirected searches from the address bar directly to AI Mode. According to Rajan Patel, a Google VP, that was an error.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Microsoft Bing Gives Searchers A Way To Disable AI Copilot Answers

Microsoft Bing announced a new way to disable the Copilot, Microsoft AI, responses from showing up in the Bing search results. There is a new browser extension available for Chrome and Edge that you can install to toggle off showing AI responses, or you can just add -ai to the end of your query.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search Ranking Volatility This Weekend – June 6th

Earlier this month, the Google May 2026 core update was completed on June 2, 2026. But the volatility has not seemed to calm down. I am seeing a lot of chatter spike up from within the SEO community over the weekend. The SEO chatter started Friday, June 5th and continued through the weekend. Meanwhile, most of the third-party Google volatility tracking tools seem somewhat calm.

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Search Engine Roundtable

How to Build a Representative AI Search Prompt Library for Better AI Visibility Measurement – International SEO Consultant, Author & Speaker | Aleyda Solis

One of the biggest mistakes I see with AI search tracking is using a non-representative prompt library to assess a brand’s AI search visibility. This can give you an inaccurate view of your AI search presence: if the prompt set over-represents generic discovery prompts, ignores product lines, misses local competitors, or only tracks branded questions, … How to Build a Representative AI Search Prompt Library for Better AI Visibility Measurement

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SEO Blog by Aleyda

Google Search Profiles Insights Beta

Google launched Search Profiles late last week, a way for creators and publishers to have a place on Google to highlight its content and platforms. And Google seems to be testing a new Insights section for Search profiles, where you can see how searchers are interacting with your Search profiles on Google.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Updates Its Hiring An SEO Doc With SEO Tools & Generative AI Optimization

Google has updated its help document titled Do you need an SEO? Google said the changes are to help when "evaluating your SEO’s recommendations and tools, along with other minor updates to the page to simplify and modernize the content." But the document also added a section for Optimizing for generative AI and making sure your SEO follows Google’s guidelines around that topic.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google On Third-Party SEO Tools, Services, and Advice

Google not only updated its advice on hiring an SEO document, but also created a new one named Google Search’s guidance on using third-party SEO tools, services, and advice. This document drills into how to evaluate the advice you get from these sources and some tips to think critically about such SEO advice.

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Search Engine Roundtable

What ChatGPT Ads data reveals about your competitors

We’ve analyzed nearly 1 million queries to show you what’s really happening. Most search teams are missing it completely.

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Search Engine Land

Google to update Local Services Ads policies in July

Google will update its Local Services Ads policies on July 6, renaming them as "requirements" and aligning advertiser guidelines.

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Search Engine Land

🎙️ How I AI: Gemini Omni: Clone yourself with AI in under 15 minutes & Shopping with Claude

Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network

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Google AI Brief may be the replacement keywords never had

After 15 years of premature obituaries, the keyword may finally have a true replacement. Here’s why Google AI Brief could change search advertising.

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Search Engine Land

The problem with AI share of voice and 3 metrics that matter more

Many AI visibility platforms extrapolate from a small subset of prompts. Explore three metrics designed for an infinite-query environment.

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Search Engine Land

How to Level-up From SEO Tactician to Search Visibility Leader

For years, SEO sat low on the org chart. It’s been chronically underfunded and perpetually one step away from being folded into content or web dev. That’s changing.

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General SEO – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

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Shopping with Claude: How to find quality brands, automate returns, and buy things that last 100 years | Nicole Ruiz

Watch now | 🎙️She uses Claude to shop for high-quality items that last, automate returns when products fail, and spend less time on administrative tasks and more time with her kids

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Lenny’s Newsletter

Instagram releases profile grid rearranging

The app teased the function earlier this year, and now all users will be able to control how their profile content is presented.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Instagram expands Reels post view ads to all advertisers

The feature allows brands to place their video ads after the end of a Reel in stream.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

OpenAI to expand ChatGPT ads to new markets & test multi-advertiser placements

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT ads to five new markets including the UK, & introducing new campaign management features.

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Search Engine Land

Google adds new Performance Max asset testing tools

Google is giving advertisers more ways to evaluate creative performance and make data-driven optimization decisions.

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Search Engine Land

Stop looking for the perfect PPC budget split

Fixed budget ratios rarely survive real-world conditions. Here’s how to evaluate funnel health and adjust spend as market dynamics change.

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Search Engine Land