Weird Gloop migrated the Overwatch and Fortnite wikis off Fandom, but instead of giving them their own root domains as it did with other wikis like RuneScape and Minecraft, it launched them as subdomains of weirdgloop.org. The move is a workaround for a Google Search behavior since March 2024 where brand-new domains only get their homepage indexed, effectively hiding every other page from search results for months.
weirdgloop.org
· 2026-09-08
An analysis by Productrise tracked over 2 million product listings across 100,000+ search results from August 9-31, 2026, running identical shopping queries through Google AI Mode and traditional search simultaneously. When the same product appeared in both, AI Mode showed it priced 21.6% higher on average, and across all listings the gap widened to 49%. Only 1.28% of products from traditional search also showed up in AI Mode for identical queries on the same day.
productrise.app
· 2026-09-04
Android Authority uncovered a new animation in a Google app beta (v17.55.8) that replaces Search Live's current gradient effect with small, blurry colorful blobs at the bottom of the screen. The beta also shows a reworked control layout that drops text labels, centers the microphone button, and adds a waveform animation when users speak.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-04
On September 2, Microsoft's Safe Links feature within Defender for Office 365 began misidentifying Google Search URLs shared in emails and Teams messages as malicious, blocking users from opening them. The outage, tracked internally as MO1465962, lasted about seven and a half hours before Microsoft resolved the faulty detection logic, though some users may have experienced lingering effects.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-03
E-commerce SEO firm Productrise found that identical products listed through Google's AI Mode averaged 21.6 percent higher prices than the same items shown via traditional Google Search. The study also found AI Mode listings appeared 49 percent more prominently to users, and nearly half the time recommended a different primary retailer than standard search results.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-02
Microsoft confirmed its Defender for Office 365 Safe Links feature is incorrectly flagging legitimate Google search URLs as malicious, showing users 'not safe' warnings when they try to click them. The company said the problem stems from an inaccurate security classification and is generating false alerts for IT admins in Microsoft Sentinel and the Defender portal. Pasting the blocked links directly into a browser does not bypass the warning.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-02
Two Wall Street research notes this week argue that Meta's heavy AI investment is starting to show results. Bernstein said AI-powered ad targeting helped Meta grow ad revenue 27% year-over-year in Q2, gaining market share from Google, whose ad network revenue actually declined. Separately, Bank of America highlighted Meta's upcoming personal AI agent, Hatch, reportedly featuring a customizable dashboard and possible premium subscription tier costing up to $199.99 a month, as a potential new revenue source beyond advertising.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-01
Samsung has pushed One UI 9 Beta 7 to the Galaxy S26 lineup, quietly adding AI features first seen on the Galaxy Z8 foldables and Galaxy S26 FE. These include My FanCam video reframing, a Call Brief overlay that surfaces calendar and email info during calls, Custom Cards for Now Brief, and combined Finder plus Google Search widgets on the home screen.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-08-28
A developer released IndexFlow, an open-source infrastructure project built in Rust that provides libraries for parsing XML sitemaps and analyzing technical SEO issues like canonical tags, robots directives, and metadata. The project is structured as modular components, including indexflow-sitemap and indexflow-seo, meant to serve as building blocks for a future commercial platform.
github.com
· 2026-08-28
Google is broadening the rollout of its 'find in note' feature in Keep, which lets users search within a single note or list for specific text, similar to Ctrl+F. The feature had appeared in a limited release earlier this month but is now showing up more widely across devices, though not universally yet.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-08-27
A veteran reputation-management consultant with 25 years of experience says businesses often make the mistake of focusing solely on removing a defamatory post rather than rebuilding the accurate narrative that persists across Google, AI search tools, and public perception. He outlines that false claims can spread beyond their origin, get cited by other outlets, and shape AI-generated summaries long after the original post appears.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-08-25
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