Google launches AI agent suite at Cloud Next 2026 with Workspace Studio, A2A protocol at 150 orgs, and Project Mariner. The pitch: only Google owns the full stack.

Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect what Google considers spam, what happens when you report it, and what agentic search looks like in practice. Here’s what matters for you and your work.

If a Google Services update is causing problems, there's a quick fix With the tap of a button, you can roll back certain updates. Use this carefully, and it could get you out of a jam. Over the past ...

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On June 15, Google will implement a new spam policy that will allow it to punish sites that interfere with your browser's back button. So-called “back button hijacking" is any behavior that interferes ...

PCWorld reports that Google will penalize websites that hijack the browser’s back button, a manipulative practice that redirects users to unwanted pages or ads. This new spam policy violation, ...

The Chrome and Edge browsers have built-in APIs for language detection, translation, summarization, and more, using locally hosted models. Here’s how to take advantage of them. With every passing year ...

Google is putting its foot down on "back button hijacking," an infamous deceptive practice where users are kept on a long loop of pressing the back button but are either not brought anywhere or ...

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Something to look forward to: Google has announced that it will begin penalizing websites that interfere with the normal functioning of a web browser's back button. Known as back button hijacking, ...

So you thought you’d just read that webpage and then go back to the previous page? A bold assumption. All too often, clicking the back button in your browser doesn’t actually take you back. It’s ...

Google has issued a new warning to sites using back button hijacking techniques, saying those sites have two months to remove or disable those techniques. If they do not, they will be subject to both ...