Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Google added experimental soft navigation metrics to the Chrome UX Report to track in-app page transitions, with Search Console support coming next.

YouTube expanded its AI search chatbot to all US users across desktop, mobile, and Connected TV.

Meta is adding LLM-based ranking to Facebook's feed and Reels, allowing users to type interest requests that update dynamically within a session, though the exact signal creators and advertisers receive remains unclear.

Google rolled out a Tasks Mode for Gemini app users, available at $19.99/month and up, integrating with 40+ services including Shopify.

Google released pricing for Gemini 4 Argon, a paid-only model with input costs of $2 per million tokens, output at $10M, and aggressive discounts for cached input.

Bing is showing websites which AI-generated search queries cite competing sites instead of theirs, highlighting citation gaps in AI search results.

Apple launched a new TV 4K at $299 with Siri AI across eight English-language markets, prompting questions about how voice search might reshape TV advertising.

Google's Martin Splitt and John Mueller discussed how Google crawls, indexes, and ranks PDFs, including file limits and link handling.

SerpApi added a web scraper allowing developers to extract data from any public page at one credit per page, with 250 free credits monthly.

Google made its Gemini 4 Argon model available through AI Mode for paid subscribers and to developers and enterprises.

Microsoft Bing launched Topics Portfolio in Webmaster Tools to help publishers analyze their content's thematic distribution, demand, and competitive positioning.

Salesforce is acquiring Loops, an AI analytics platform, to integrate its causal-analysis capabilities into Tableau.

Publicis describes its AI transformation as uneven, with Sapient underperforming while agentic AI systems help win pitches without traditional presentations.

Google's updated content guidance now requires manual fact-checking and human review of all AI-generated content, including metadata, but offers no guarantee that compliance will restore lost traffic.

Research of 1,650 responses found AI systems recommend different brands depending on which language a query is posed in.

A site owner reported that Google began showing their old domain in search results again, four months after completing a migration to a new domain.

Google has expanded pharmaceutical ads to appear in AI Mode and AI Overviews, according to a company spokesperson.

Google is hiring for a principal UX role focused on transforming Discover into a more proactive, personalized recommendation engine.

Google's John Mueller clarified that site migrations can take four months or longer to process fully, and offered guidance on what to prioritize during the transition.

Google Merchant Center is experiencing an issue where video uploads remain stuck in preview processing, preventing videos from displaying in product listings.

Google Search Console's performance report date picker is malfunctioning, with the end date locked to 1969 and rejecting any newer dates.

Google is adding gluten-free, dairy-free, halal, and kosher dietary attributes to Google Business Profiles for restaurants.

SAP's customer loyalty research finds AI increases brand loyalty for 31% of consumers but drives 30% away, with 60% preferring shared human-AI control over full automation.

Semrush analysis reveals UK brands rank lower in ChatGPT citations than equivalent US retailers, suggesting different AI visibility patterns between markets.

Google is reportedly poisoning its search results with deliberately bad data to interfere with rival AI scrapers training on the web.

Zeta Global pushed enterprise AI initiatives at Advertising Week while executives privately worried about Apple's ad-targeting restrictions.