AI and search news for US small businesses: November 2026
Google finished a spam update, ads are spreading into AI tools, and Google and OpenAI plan a shared AI training signal. Most small businesses need to do very little.
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Once a month we read what Google, Bing, ChatGPT and the other AI tools have announced, pick the few things that matter to a small business, and say what each one means for you. Every item links to where it came from.
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