Snapchat usage declined in the US and EU in Q1

Snapchat’s user growth declined in the U.S. and EU, compounding growth concerns for the app.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Google Search Tests Gemini 3 Model Options In Search Bar

Google is testing letting searchers select the Gemini 3 model they want to use directly in the Google Search bar. The options can include, Pro, Fast or Auto, from what I can see.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Testing New Anchor Links & Favicon Experiences In AI Mode

Google is testing an update to the citations, anchor links, and favicons within the AI Mode results. This new experience seems to make the citations more clickable because the embedded links have larger favicons and seem to appear more often, near the text it is referencing.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google AI Overviews With Author Names & Source

Google is showing the full author name and the source, like LinkedIn – and name or Medium – and name, for the citations. It makes sense for these social platforms to show the name, because anyone can write anything on these platforms, so knowing the name makes it more useful.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 6, 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 may be rolling out new links and citation experiences for AI Mode and AI Overviews…

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google updates links within AI Overviews & AI Mode

Google says these updates make it "easy for you to connect with authentic voices and explore useful information across the web."

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Search Engine Land

Why Facebook account lockouts are rising and what’s driving them

AI moderation, stricter security signals, and platform scale are increasing false positives — often without meaningful human review.

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Search Engine Land

Your managed WordPress might be blocking AI bots and you can’t see it

Your SEO tools show nothing wrong. But platform-level limits may be quietly blocking AI systems from accessing and citing your content.

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Search Engine Land

7 E-Commerce APIs to Build the Perfect Online Store

Learn how e-commerce APIs power modern online stores, automate operations, connect essential tools, and enable scalable, flexible shopping experiences for growing brands.

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Meta adds more insight tools to Edits to enhance video projects

Having more insights data in-stream will help creators build better, more effective video projects.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Google Analytics Data API adds cross-channel conversion reporting (alpha)

Developers can now access unified paid and organic conversion data programmatically, though the feature is still in limited alpha.

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Search Engine Land

Meta is preparing to launch AI agents to undertake tasks for users

Meta’s agentic tools would introduce users to a new phase of automation, in which AI tools can act on their behalf.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Microsoft: AI answers need a smarter search index

AI search is pushing indexes beyond relevance, with Bing focusing on facts, attribution, and confidence before answers are generated.

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Search Engine Land

Agentic AI vs. Generative AI: What’s the Difference, and Why Does It Matter?

Generative AI creates content, agentic AI takes action. Learn the key differences and how each fits into your marketing workflow in 2025.

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General Marketing – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

Quests, token leaderboards, and a skills marketplace: The elite AI adoption playbook | John Kim (Sendbird)

Watch now | 🎙️Sendbird’s CEO turned AI adoption into a product, including quests, token tiers, and a marketing team that ships live swag stores in a day with zero engineers

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Lenny’s Newsletter

Reddit shares key trends for in-app financial services research

Reddit shared the insights at its recent finserv conference in New York, showcasing evolving usage behaviors in the app.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Google Expands UCP Checkout To Search

In February, Google announced that UCP, Universal Commerce Protocol, powered checkout is available in AI Mode. Well, now you can use UCP powered checkout in the main search results for some retailers like Wayfair.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Threads adds playable music stickers in-stream

Users will be able to add tracks to their Threads updates, as a native music sharing option.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

LinkedIn launches Ad Agency Certification to showcase LinkedIn Ads knowledge

The program will enable agencies to demonstrate their understanding of the latest LinkedIn ads skills and trends.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

OpenAI Launches Beta Self-Serve Ads Manager For ChatGPT Ads

A few weeks ago, we uncovered the beta self-serve Ads Manager for ChatGPT Ads. It was before it officially launched but now OpenAI officially announced its "beta self-serve Ads Manager that allows advertisers in the US to sign up and purchase ads directly to appear in ChatGPT."

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Search Engine Roundtable

How to use Call assets, lead forms, and Message assets in Google Ads

Are you making it too hard for customers to reach you? Learn three essential ways to get more leads directly from your search ads.

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Search Engine Land

The real strategy behind negative keywords in 2026

From match types to automation, learn how to make smarter exclusion decisions that align with account goals.

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Search Engine Land

Google Local Service Ads Account Access Not Loading

The Google Local Service Ads account access tab has not been loading and working for advertisers for the past several days. There are numerous reports of it failing throughout the day and it has become a huge frustration for a number of Google advertisers.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Parked domain monetization 2026: Adapting to the changes

In 2025, Google began rolling out significant changes to its Search Partner Network, aimed at improving inventory quality.

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Search Engine Land