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Creators & Marketing Search Engine Roundtable

Google Business Profiles Adds Facebook Messenger M.me Links

AI summary Google has started notifying businesses by email that it is automatically placing m.me links for Facebook Messenger on their Google Business Profile pages. Darcy Burk shared one of the emails on X and asked whether others were seeing a wave of such updates. The m.me service is a Meta short-link tool that opens a direct Messenger chat with a Facebook Page, and adding it to these profiles appears to be new.

Tools & Products Product Hunt

Mo

A little character on your Mac who does 232 tasks for you Discussion | Link

Creators & Marketing Search Engine Roundtable

Google Image Search Tests Save Button On Image Overlay

AI summary Google is experimenting with moving the Save button in its image search results. In the test, the button appears when users hover the mouse pointer over an image, rather than only after clicking it. Until now, Save showed up once an image was clicked and its preview opened in a separate window. Damien Andell spotted the change and shared a video of it on X.

Tools & Products Product Hunt

StoreLocale

AI summary StoreLocale is a new tool that finds text within App Store and Google Play screenshots and translates it into 32 languages. It redraws the app interface in the target language while preserving the original layout, addressing cases where only the caption around an image gets translated. Users can check each output and then download PNG files sorted by language, size and store. The makers are asking for input on translation quality and on which languages are most in demand.

Code & Agents Search Engine Roundtable

Bing Tests Get Phone Number & QR Code To Scan

AI summary Microsoft Bing is experimenting with a phone icon in its desktop local pack that, when clicked, displays a business's number alongside a QR code users can scan to place a call. Khushal Bherwani noticed the feature and posted about it on X, noting it appeared as an extension in sponsored ads. Google introduced a comparable option in 2023.

Creators & Marketing Search Engine Roundtable

Google Business Profiles Asking Businesses For EIN

AI summary Some businesses editing their Google Business Profile are being prompted for an Employer Identification Number (EIN) along with a privacy policy URL. Syed Amir reported spotting the request while turning on the messaging button. According to a screenshot he shared, a Google partner checks the submitted details before messages can be received, a review lasting roughly three to four working days.

Creators & Marketing Search Engine Journal

Google Signals A Wider Crackdown On SEO Spam

AI summary Google has revised its spam policy page on user-generated content so that it now covers hosting services and tools letting people publish shared pages, generated output or web apps. A new section tells such platforms to keep pages built for direct sharing or collaboration out of search by applying noindex or blocking crawling via robots.txt by default. Google also urges owners to verify sites in Search Console for manual action alerts and to watch for sudden jumps in indexed pages or a few users producing many indexable URLs. The update does not state that enforcement is imminent.

Tools & Products Product Hunt

Smart Jelly

AI summary Nishant, founder of Smart Jelly, has released a Mac app that bundles dictation, meeting notes, live meeting assistance and agents around a single shared memory. He says he built it after paying for separate AI apps that could not exchange context. The memory system took six months to develop, scores 87.6% on the BEAM-100K benchmark, is stored encrypted on the user's Mac and can be reviewed, corrected or deleted. Meeting notes are taken without a bot joining calls, and the app can be started for free.

Code & Agents The Decoder

AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most capable AI models for cyberdefense

AI summary Security startup Cathedral, founded by former DOGE staff, used AI agents to get into Anthropic's internal sales, HR and IT systems through outside business software during the company's bug bounty program. Cathedral says its agents reached salary data, meeting transcripts and Slack messages in under twelve hours, while Anthropic says the attempts spanned several days and that source code, model weights and Claude chats stayed untouched. Anthropic closed the access points the same day, notified U.S. federal authorities and accused Cathedral of breaking program rules by reporting only one of two flaws it found. Former OpenAI employee Will Depue claims Cathedral obtained full Slack admin access, which Anthropic red teamer Logan Graham denies.

Tools & Products Product Hunt

Kin

AI summary Kin, a new release from developer Troy, sits between AI assistants and services like Gmail, GitHub and Stripe, letting users mark each action as Allow, Ask me or Block. Requests can be approved from a phone, and because credentials remain encrypted, the AIs never see any passwords or keys. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and other assistants are supported. Users in the US and 33 more countries can try Pro for 7 days without entering a card, though the Free tier isn't available in Europe yet.

Code & Agents Simon Willison

Quoting Terk Terkowitz

AI summary Terk Terkowitz, writing in an update from Amazon engineering leadership about developers' role in the AI era, said engineers whose work gains nothing from today's AI tools should treat that as a result rather than a shortcoming. He urged them to record the reasons, discuss them with peers and their manager, and look for fixes. Explaining where AI falls short shows the judgement the company wants, he added. The quote was shared on 28 October 2026.

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