Google updated its "creating helpful, reliable, people-first content" guidelines to explicitly forbid deceptive authorship information, stating it will no longer prioritize sites that fabricate creato…
A developer detailed the true cost of building in-house AI answer-collection infrastructure, arguing the expense is engineering time and ongoing maintenance rather than API fees. The writeup breaks do…
Google introduced platform properties in Search Console on July 7, 2026, letting verified owners of Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube accounts track how their social and video posts perform across Goo…
Google News & Trends MCP, a server that queries Google News RSS feeds and Google Trends search interest, was published as version 0.2.10 to the official MCP registry on 2026-08-30, distributed as mcp-…
Google announced on Friday that its Google app will soon let users customize their Discovery feed using natural language prompts, powered by Gemini, such as "show me kitchen renovation tips and ideas,…
Google LLC has introduced a 'Preferred Sources' button that publishers can embed to let readers favor their sites across Search, Discover, and Google News, aiming to counter traffic losses from AI-pow…
Google announced updates to customize Search, Discover, and Google News, including a Preferred Sources button for publishers and an AI prompt box for Discover. The Preferred Sources feature, rolling o…
Google is rolling out an AI-driven interface for its Discover feed in the Google app in the coming days, allowing users to customize recommendations through natural-language requests, as reported by T…
Google is rolling out a new AI-powered feature to the Google app that lets users customize their Discover feed by describing their preferences in a chatbot-style interface, with the option to refresh …
Google on Thursday introduced a new 'Preferred Sources' button that publishers can embed on their websites, allowing readers to mark them as favorites to be highlighted more often across Google Search…
Google announced on Thursday the rollout of three personalization features across Search, Discover, and Google News, including a new interactive Preferred Sources button that returns readers to the pu…
Google is adding new personalization controls across Search, Discover, and Google News, allowing users to specify topics and links they want to see more of in Discover, customize daily audio briefings…
Matthew Brunelle, writing on his blog, explains that after switching to GrapheneOS, he inadvertently opted out of Google's AI-powered Smart Notifications on Pixel devices, which bundle notifications i…
Google Search Console has introduced Platform Properties, a new property type that connects eligible Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube accounts, allowing creators and publishers to view search perform…
A live map of the English-language news cycle, rebuilt hourly from embedded headlines, ingests stories from Google News US and UK editions, embeds each with OpenAI's text-embedding-3-large, clusters t…
MediaFuse, the parent company of crypto-focused Chainwire, launched TechnologyWire, a press-release distribution network optimized for AI search tools and Google News. The service aims to make content…
Google updated its privacy settings to automatically opt users into AI training using their uploaded media, including images, audio, and video from Search, Maps, and other services. Users can opt out …
Google is requiring news publishers in its AI-powered article overviews pilot to grant broad rights for content use, including AI training, or risk losing annual fees from Google News, which Google pl…
Spronta launched a free, agent-run email newsletter that delivers weekly competitive intelligence briefs tailored to each subscriber's business. The system uses three AI agents to monitor six sources …
Google News Map, a project that scrapes Google News data to display headlines on a world map, has been relaunched by its creator after a 20-year hiatus. The original project led to the creator's hirin…