Dark patterns are a Canadian legal problem now
Canada’s privacy regulator reviewed 145 Canadian sites in 2024. Ninety-nine percent had at least one dark pattern. Here is what the OPC found and five things to audit on your own.
Search Report • July 12, 2026
Search Console starts tracking social platforms, Cloudflare and Google clash over crawler control, Google breaks its all-time usage record during the World Cup, and the AI opt-out toggle spreads beyond the UK.
How to fix a missing WordPress database error after restoring site files
You restore your files from a backup and they come back, wp-config.php and all. Then you go to restore the database and it isn’t there. Your backup isn’t gone. Deleting the site removed the database container, so there’s nothing for the backup system to map your history to. Rebuild the container and the backup reappears. … Read more
The search visibility gap Canadian bilingual sites don’t know they have
AI engines don’t just read your pages. They verify your business exists. For Canadian agencies managing bilingual properties, building that chain of trust is already half done.
Search Report • July 5, 2026
A 30-year Bing career ends, Google retires the AMP cache, ChatGPT’s Thinking mode cites a different web, and search demand is falling faster than Gartner predicted.