Four stories today, and the first one is Apple quietly telling every website owner which of its robots you can block without disappearing from the new Siri.

In this episode:

• Apple Confirmed Blocking Applebot-Extended, Its AI-Training Switch, Has No Effect on Ranking in Siri, Spotlight, and Safari Search, a Week Before iOS 27 Ships the Web-Searching Siri.

• Google Ads Launched Automated Promotions, Which Reads the Live Deals on Your Website and Attaches Them to Your Search and Performance Max Ads on Campaigns With Location Assets.

• Google's John Mueller Said AI-Generated Programmatic Pages Can Make Google "Lose Faith" in Your Whole Site, With Recovery Taking Months of Real Effort.

• Smarter Ecommerce Data on 175 Billion Impressions Found Shopping Ads Are Showing Less Often Since AI Overviews Expanded, So a  ...