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  • The EU Just Forced Google to Share Its Search Data
    Google SearchDigital Markets Act

    The EU Just Forced Google to Share Its Search Data

    On 16 July 2026 the European Commission adopted a final decision forcing Google to share anonymised Search data with rival search engines and AI chatbots. Here is what changed, how the anonymisation actually works, and what it means for discovery.

    16 July 2026
  • Google Adds Sale Dates to Product Schema. Free Visibility Just Got Cheaper.
    Structured DataGoogle Merchant Center

    Google Adds Sale Dates to Product Schema. Free Visibility Just Got Cheaper.

    Google has extended Merchant listing structured data to support sale start and end dates plus product category. It is a low-cost feed and schema task that wins strikethrough pricing and cleaner category signals across Search, Shopping and AI shopping surfaces.

    16 July 2026
  • The Shopify Sync Change That Could Wipe Your Product History
    Google Merchant CenterShopify

    The Shopify Sync Change That Could Wipe Your Product History

    Reinstalling the Google & YouTube Shopify app before the 18 August migration deadline may rewrite your product IDs, orphaning historical performance data and resetting Merchant Center learning. Here is what growth and ecommerce teams need to audit before, not after, the deadline.

    14 July 2026
  • Bing Just Turned Its Shopping Results Into the Storefront
    BingMicrosoft Advertising

    Bing Just Turned Its Shopping Results Into the Storefront

    Bing is testing a product detail overlay that shows images, descriptions, retailer prices and price insights without a click-through. Here is why your product feed, not your landing page, is now the conversion surface.

    14 July 2026
  • Google Now Labels AI-Made Ads. Is Yours Ready?
    Google AdsAI Transparency

    Google Now Labels AI-Made Ads. Is Yours Ready?

    Google has started telling users when an ad's creative was made with generative AI, via a new panel in My Ad Center. It is the first consumer-facing transparency layer on paid creative, and it forces growth teams to decide their disclosure posture before the labels decide it for them.

    13 July 2026
  • ChatGPT Work Turns the Chatbot Into a Worker You Delegate To
    ChatGPT WorkOpenAI

    ChatGPT Work Turns the Chatbot Into a Worker You Delegate To

    OpenAI's ChatGPT Work is a Codex and GPT-5.6 agent that acts across your apps and files and sticks with a task for hours. For growth teams, this is the shift from prompting a tool to delegating a workflow. Here is how it works and what to lock down first.

    11 July 2026

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