Controllers get 72 hours to answer access, erasure and objection requests. Signed 16 July 2026, the rules apply from January 2027, with no regulator in place.

Republic of the Congo adds 18% VAT and Tanzania lifts its digital sales tax to 3%, hitting app revenue. Prices in Israel and Indonesia move on September 14.

Sixteen terms, four groups of four. One group is closer to plumbing than strategy, and one tile sits in the wrong place on purpose until you find it.

Google stops applying site reputation abuse manual actions to EEA search results on August 30, the first time its spam enforcement splits by user location.

Operators can now track, edit and cancel entries and read rejection reasons that support email once handled. Ownership controls and site feedback come next.

Nasdaq-listed CAST will publish Beyond Media reports free on LinkedIn rather than as gated research. Whether carriers can sell that ad layer stays unanswered.

Manual actions logged in Search Console still hit non-EEA results, so one page can rank in Berlin and vanish in Boston. Mediation now follows reconsideration.

Bingbot is Microsoft's web crawler for Bing, Copilot, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo: user agent strings, crawl-delay support, IP verification, and where it is disputed.

Google AdsBot is the crawler that fetches ad landing pages: how it works, why it ignores robots.txt wildcards, its crawl schedule, and the load it creates.

ClaudeBot is Anthropic's web crawler collecting public content that may train Claude models, controlled through robots.txt and separate from two other bots.

Meta-ExternalAgent is Meta's web crawler for training foundation models and indexing pages. The user agent, robots.txt token, crawl share and open disputes.

Manual actions are penalties Google applies after human review of a site, suppressing or removing pages from search results until the violation has been fixed.

Digital Markets Act: the EU regulation that imposes ex ante obligations on designated gatekeeper platforms, reshaping search, app stores and ad data access.

EEA, the European Economic Area, extends EU single market law to 30 states. How ad platforms detect it, which rules follow it, and where the shorthand breaks.

Status dashboard logged the fault at 21:19 UTC on August 20, then ran 160 hours without an update. Engineering found the root cause, but no workaround exists.

This week’s SEO Pulse covers Google’s AI publisher dispute, spam update fallout, the GEO debate, AI citation gaps, and ChatGPT’s Reddit behavior in search.

Google took eight days to restore AdMob rewarded video on Android after an August 20 failure it logged at the lowest severity tier on its status dashboard.

Sixteen terms, sorted into four groups. Today's grid runs on the machinery under a campaign, and one group is far more ordinary than it first looks.

Second-hand discounts are savings advertised on used and refurbished goods against a reference price the seller never charged. How feeds and law handle it.

FacebookExternalHit is Meta's link preview crawler, fetching pages shared in its apps. How it works, what it reads, and why its robots.txt status is disputed.