August 18, 2025
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Good morning.
Today’s roundup:
1) AI search firm Perplexity makes $34.5 billion surprise bid for Google Chrome.
2) Google Explains Why They Need To Control Ranking Signals.
3) Google Top Stories Preferred Sources Is Live In US & India.
Google has launched the Preferred Sources top stories feature fully in the US and India, after testing it in Search Labs for a bit over six weeks. As I said then, this is a nice feature for publishers and hopefully will lead to more traffic from Google Search for some.
4) OpenAI brings back GPT-4o after user revolt.
5) New Study Suggests That Posting More Often Is Key to IG Growth.
6) Reddit will block the Internet Archive.
7) LinkedIn Expands Newsletter Access, Teases Premium SMB Package.
8) Google boosts iOS App campaigns with new formats, AI tools.
9) Google Ads Touts New AI To Reduce Invalid Traffic In Some Cases By 40%.
10) Microsoft: SEOs Need To Study Clicks To Conversions From AI Search.
11) Google Allows Dating & Companionship Ads In More Countries.
12) Google Traffic Drops 50% After Site Hack; Recovery Can Take Time Says Google.
More insights to explore…
YouTube Lets Creators Pick Exact CTAs In Promote Website Ads.
How to protect your brand reputation in AI search.
Brave Announces AI Grounding API With Plans Starting At Free.
Have an awesome week!
— Itay Paz
Itay PazFounder & CEO
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