Google has begun rolling out the August 2026 spam update, applying it globally and across all languages. It’s the third spam update of the year, following rollouts in March and June. Unlike some previous spam updates, Google did not pair this rollout with new spam policy language or a companion blog post explaining what changed. […]
What We Can Learn From Evolving ChatGPT Fan-Out Queries
ChatGPT does not answer most questions straight from memory. When a prompt needs current information, the model breaks it into a set of background searches — “fan-out queries” — runs them in parallel, and stitches an answer together from whatever comes back. Watching how those background searches have changed over the past year turns out […]