Google Explains Why URLs Blocked By Robots.txt Can Still Be Indexed
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about the curious circumstance of Search Console reporting thousands of URLs as indexed despite…
June 2026
WhatsApp Is Testing Read-Once Disappearing Messages
It’s finally joining Meta’s other messaging apps with the feature. Steve Dent for Engadget WhatsApp already offers disappearing photos, videos…
Tim Heidecker Wants to Turn Infowars Into Adult Swim for the Internet
Christmas morning. Was it really Christmas morning? Oh, metaphorically speaking. I’m Canadian, very gullible. Now you know. Good to know….
West Antarctica Is Missing Way Too Much Ice
Antarctica’s west coast is missing an area of winter sea ice the size of France, sparking concerns for threatened penguins…
For Iran’s Athletes, There Is No Separating Sports From Politics
Iran’s national soccer team has made its 2026 World Cup debut amid a tumultuous backdrop: an abrupt and tentative ceasefire…
Why Publishing More Content Is Making Your SEO Worse
For most of the history of modern SEO, publishing more content was considered almost universally beneficial. More pages meant more…
Interactive. Violent. Gross. Inside Fishtank, the Unhinged Future of Reality TV
Some trolls experience buyer’s remorse, Margera says, chuckling. He says a man from Texas recently emailed the morning after spending…
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Average engagement rates for 12 industries [2026 update]
Without social media benchmarks, it’s difficult to make sense of raw data. That’s why we’ve rounded up average social media…
Google’s Updated Guidance Now Says It’s “Fine” To Use LLMs.txt For AI SEO
Google updated its guidance on Generative AI SEO to lighten up on its previous guidance that discouraged the use of…
The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of the A.I. Boom
The heartbeat of the artificial intelligence economy sounds like a low-frequency thrum of a neighbor’s central air-conditioning unit, an airplane…