X will DM users about Community Notes updates

Elon Musk announced the news in a recent post, but it appears to replicate an existing procedure on the platform.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Google Search Broke All Usage Records With Highest Usage

Nick Fox, Senior Vice President of Knowledge & Information at Google, said Google Search "broke all prior usage records and saw its highest usage in history" after Argentina scored its winning goal in yesterday’s World Cup match.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 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 is testing using tracking URLs within its search results…

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search Product Results With Contact Store For Price

Google Search normally shows product listings with pricing on them, but sometimes it can show "Contact store for price" when it Google does not know the price. I am not sure if I’ve seen this before, and it might not be new, but it did really stand out as unusual. I mean, you’d think Google would swap this product out for a product it has pricing for.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Meta addresses capture LED tampering on its AI glasses

The company said that its second generation devices will not be able to record if the indicator lights are disabled or otherwise tampered with.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

ChatGPT citations change when hidden search pipelines switch

Two analyses found ChatGPT’s hidden search systems can change its sources, making citation tracking harder than answers suggest.

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Search Engine Land

What is a harness and how to build one with Claude Agent SDK

Listen now | 🎙️ I built a custom Claude Agent SDK harness to automate Sentry bug triage, saved the "dear agent, please fix this" prompt forever, and show you exactly how to build your own

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Lenny’s Newsletter

Google Testing google.com/goto As Tracking URLs In Search Results

For the past week or so, I have heard a few folks notice that Google is appending tracking URLs to the search results. So when you click on a search result, instead of the URL going directly to that site, Google is using a google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL that then passes through to the page URL listed in the search results.

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Search Engine Roundtable

The SparkToro API is Live: Audience Research as Infrastructure – SparkToro

I have a confession. For years, my least favorite customer question was "Does SparkToro have a public API?" Not because it was a bad question. But,

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SparkToro

How to build an AI-powered content gap analysis workflow

See how to combine Semrush, Google Search Console, Google Analytics, and Claude to prioritize the content opportunities that matter most.

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Search Engine Land

5 questions to ask AI vendors before buying a tool

Separate genuine solutions from AI hype by evaluating business value, data policies, customer proof, and implementation before you invest.

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Search Engine Land

Google Business Profiles Appeal Process Updated – Evidence Uploads

Google has updated its Google Business Profile appeal process and flow to allow businesses to upload their evidence for the business profile suspension. The old flow had a different form where you would later upload that evidence, and you only had 60 minutes to do so. This is now built into the appeal workflow in Google Business Profiles.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google adds AI-powered Video Remix option

The option, available in Google Photo, allows users to generate stylized, realistic elements using the company’s Gemini Omni artificial intelligence tool.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Meta’s new AI option allows remixes of public IG posts

The company’s updated image generation model lets users tag profiles and import visuals into its artificial intelligence visual creation tools.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

How to make your SEO strategy more commercially aware

Prioritize SEO using the metrics that matter most to the business, including revenue, profitability, and return on investment.

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Search Engine Land

LinkedIn shares tips on effective posting

Frequency, length and consistency are key, and can help boost artificial intelligence pickup as well as overall engagement.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Why most original data never gets cited

Primary research is rare, but it earns 3.3x more AI citations per page. Learn why benchmark studies outperform other original data.

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Search Engine Land

The future of performance marketing isn’t more vendors. It’s making your stack work harder.

As performance pressures mount, the future of marketing success lies in transforming your data foundation into a strategic AI-powered engine for growth.

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Search Engine Land

Why you should opt out of Google Search Partners

Learn what Search Partners are, why they usually produce junk traffic, and how to see if you’re spending money on these placements.

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Search Engine Land

Google Ads New AI Max Frequently Asked Questions

Google has posted some new frequently asked questions to the Google Ads AI Max help document. The questions cover what is AI Max, why you should use AI Max, that AI Max is not a new campaign type, how AI Max differs from PMax and what happens when you upgrade to AI Max.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads Conversions Last Event Ping

Google added a useful detail to the active conversions screen, to show you when was the last time Google Ads was able to trigger a ping event on your conversion feed and data. When you hover over the conversions, it will show you the date and time for the "last event ping."

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Search Engine Roundtable