Organic SEO & Search News

Instagram Chief Outlines the Challenges of AI Content – IG chief Adam Mosseri says that AI tools are getting so good that creators need to take a new angle.

Meta Acquires AI Chatbot Company Manus – Meta continues to build out its AI development team.

Google.com Showing New Year’s Eve Doodle On New Year’s Day – This is weird. It is 2026, and Google.com, the Google Search home page, is still showing yesterday’s New Year’s Eve doodle of 2025 going into 2026.

Google’s John Mueller Working On New Year’s Day 2026 – Just like with Christmas day every year, so too with New Year’s Day – Google’s John Mueller and often other Googlers are out and looking to respond to some questions on Google Search and SEO.

Paid Search & Platform Innovations

TikTok Launches New Resources for Sports Organizations – TikTok is looking to make sports a bigger focus in 2026.

2026 Planning: The AI Dilemma – Do you need to be using AI in 2026?

We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) – Jason Lemkin on why he replaced his entire sales team with AI agents, how he fine-tuned them to work better than his human salespeople, which vendors to choose, and how to become hyper-employable in the AI area.

General Digital Marketing

Google.com Showing New Year’s Eve Doodle On New Year’s Day – This is weird. It is 2026, and Google.com, the Google Search home page, is still showing yesterday’s New Year’s Eve doodle of 2025 going into 2026.

Google’s John Mueller Working On New Year’s Day 2026 – Just like with Christmas day every year, so too with New Year’s Day – Google’s John Mueller and often other Googlers are out and looking to respond to some questions on Google Search and SEO.