Meta updates parental supervision tools

New controls in the company’s Family Center dashboard will build on Instagram’s existing Your Algorithm option, and additional alerts will provide more oversight.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Google quietly gave 54 publishers control over their Discover profiles. Here’s what they did with it.

The first systematic analysis of Google’s invitation-only enhanced publisher profiles on Discover, based on monitoring 46,926 publishers.

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Search Engine Land

Google Discover performance reporting bug in Search Console

You may notice a decrease in clicks and impressions between May 7th and May 8th, it is a reporting bug only.

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Search Engine Land

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 12, 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 Merchant Center for Agencies is now globally available. Google Discover publisher pages gain links and featured posts. Google is testing a dark and light URL in the search results, at the same time. Bing Webmaster Tools does not distinguish between http and https. Google Ads certification process was updated for cryptocurrency…

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Testing Dark & Light URLs In Search Results

Google is testing displaying the URL of the search result snippet where the https portion is a dark gray and the domain name portion is a light gray. It is a weird test, but hey, Google is always testing…

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Discover Publisher Pages Gaining Links & Featured Posts

Google is testing updating the Google Discover publisher pages by adding custom links, featured posts, larger header images and sharper logos. I assume this would be managed by claiming your page?

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Search Engine Roundtable

How soft 404s and indexing issues caused a 90% traffic collapse

When Google stops indexing your pages, traffic can vanish fast. Here’s how one publisher reversed the decline after a migration went wrong.

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Search Engine Land

Bing Webmaster Tools Does Not Distinguish Between http and https

Did you know that Bing Webmaster Tools treats http and https as the same property, it does not distinguish between http and https? This is different from Google Search Console, which lets you set up a property for each and every variation.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Grok downloads fall nearly 60%

Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot is struggling to compete with similar artificial intelligence projects from OpenAI, Meta and Google, per the Wall Street Journal.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Meta expands Meta AI chatbot access to Threads

The company said its trial rollout will be available in Argentina, Malaysia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Singapore, where users can query via tagging.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

The delegation boundary: How AI decides which brands win

AI assistants shape recommendations, purchases, and transactions, forcing brands to compete for algorithmic confidence, not just clicks.

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Search Engine Land

OpenAI adds product feed ads to ChatGPT

OpenAI is turning product catalogues into automated ads, making it easier for retailers to scale campaigns inside ChatGPT.

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Search Engine Land

How negative information spreads from Wikipedia into AI search

Negative or outdated Wikipedia content can persist for years, then gain renewed visibility when AI systems surface it in generated answers.

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Search Engine Land

TikTok launches counterfeit goods detection initiative

The TikTok Real program incorporates insights from more than 300 experts and is designed to remove fake products from the app.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

LinkedIn will enable consultants to book business direct from their profile

Consultants will now be able to add an in-app link to book a session with them, which will also facilitate payment in-stream.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

TikTok expands TikTok GO in the U.S.

The travel affiliate program allows creators to earn commissions by tagging relevant businesses in their posts.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Ecommerce AI Search Optimization: What Citation Patterns Across 5 Subverticals Tell Us About Optimizing Beyond PDPs and PLPs – International SEO Consultant, Author & Speaker | Aleyda Solis

There’s a comfortable narrative around ecommerce AI search right now in that AI systems tend to surface large, well-known ecommerce brands; marketplaces lead many commercial answers; and the playbook is to optimize product pages, category pages, product feeds, and structured data to improve a site’s machine readability. That is partly true: Product detail pages (PDPs), … Ecommerce AI Search Optimization: What Citation Patterns Across 5 Subverticals Tell Us About Optimizing Beyond PDPs and PLPs

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SEO Blog by Aleyda

Google Merchant Center For Agencies Goes Global

Two months ago, Google rolled out Google Merchant Center For Agencies in the US and Canada after beta testing it in October 2025. Now, Google has released Google Merchant Center for Agencies globally, everywhere.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Why vibe coding is becoming an SEO advantage

The biggest SEO gains increasingly come from interactive experiences that remove friction and answer intent immediately.

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Search Engine Land

Google Ads adds Gemini-powered dashboards for real-time insights

Google is turning Ads reporting into a prompt-driven experience, letting advertisers analyse performance with AI-powered dashboards.

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Search Engine Land

Google Ads Certification Process Updated For Cryptocurrency

Google posted an update to its Google Ads certification process for several cryptocurrencies and complex speculative financial products.

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Search Engine Roundtable