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FTC takes action against Google over search ad deal with Yahoo The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and ...

The Fair Trade Commission has obligated Google LLC to abide by its corrective action plan over suspicions that it unfairly restricted a Japanese rival's search advertising business.
Asahi Shimbun 12:27 pm on April 22, 2024

Google Doodle Transforms Six Aerial Photos Into its Logo for Earth Day 2024

Google turns its logo in an emblem for Earth Day 2024.
PetaPixel 5:27 pm on April 22, 2024

Google Showing 16 Shopping Ads

It is good to have choices but too many choices might not be good, said some wise man. Well, here is Google giving you 16 choices of bikes in the shopping ad spot at the top of the Google Search results.
Search Engine Roundtable 5:27 pm on April 22, 2024

Google Needs Very Few Links To Rank Pages; Links Are Less Important

Gary Illyes from Google spoke at the SERP Conf on Friday and he said what he said numerous times before, that Google values links a lot less today than it did in the past. He added that Google Search "needs very few ...
Search Engine Roundtable 5:33 pm on April 22, 2024

TikTok raises free speech concerns on bill passed by US House that...

TikTok on Sunday raised free speech concerns about a bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that would ban the popular social media app in the U.S. if its Chinese owner ByteDance did not...
New York Post 12:12 pm on April 22, 2024

Coalition Condemns Google's Illegal Firing of Workers Protesting Israel Contract

In a $1.2 billion contract, Google and Amazon provide cloud infrastructure and data services to the Israeli government.
Truthout 12:12 pm on April 22, 2024

Google pressed to reform search ad practices in Japan The Mainichi

TOKYO (Kyodo) Japan's antitrust watchdog said Monday it has asked Google LLC to voluntarily reform its business practices after finding that it imp
The Mainichi 12:29 pm on April 22, 2024

Google’s Gemini might soon replicate Google Assistant’s music streaming integration

Google Assistant has been here for a long time, but now it's time to move on from Google Assistant to ...
SamMobile 12:29 pm on April 22, 2024

Google On 404 Errors And Ranking Drops

Google's Gary Illyes answered a question about a ranking drop that appeared to be connected to 404 page not found errors
Search Engine Journal 1:46 pm on April 21, 2024

Google On Diagnosing A Deindexed WordPress Site

Google's John Mueller shows what the first step is for diagnosing why a WordPress site was de indexed after a hosting migration
Search Engine Journal 4:59 am on April 21, 2024

Google Answers Whether Having Two Sites Affects Rankings

Google's John Mueller the answers question of whether having multiple websites could have a negative and lasting effect on rankings
Search Engine Journal 9:53 pm on April 19, 2024

Google Maps enhances search for EV charging stations

Explore the latest enhancements in Google Maps designed to simplify your search for EV charging stations and make your electric vehicle journey more convenient.
DevX.com 2:04 pm on April 20, 2024

Google Combining Android, Pixel Divisions To Broadly Integrate AI

Google will combine the software division responsible for Android and the hardware division known for Pixel smartphones and Fitbit.
Patch 2:04 pm on April 20, 2024

Google Fires 28 Workers After Employees Staged Protest Over Company Providing Services to Israel

Google fired 28 employees after the protests held across two of the company's offices on April 16. The employees had staged the protests over Google's association with the Israeli government, which involves cloud computing ...
NTD News 1:46 pm on April 21, 2024

Google is combining Android and Chrome software group with Pixel and Fitbit hardware division to more broadly integrate ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the changes will turbocharge the Android and Chrome ecosystems while helping to spur innovation.
Fortune 1:46 pm on April 21, 2024

Google Answers If Changing Web Hosting Affects SEO

Google's Gary Illyes answers the question of whether changing web hosting platform can have a negative and lasting effect on SEO
Search Engine Journal 9:36 pm on April 19, 2024

Frontier Communications discloses cyberattack. CryptoChameleon phishing kit impersonates LastPass.

Akira ransomware has made $42 million since March 2023.
The CyberWire 1:46 pm on April 21, 2024

Meta AI Declares War On OpenAI, Google With Standalone Chatbot What To Know About Llama 3' Model

Unlike major competitors including Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, Meta's Llama 3 model is open source and the AI assistant it powers has previously been locked inside the company's app ecosystem, which includes Facebook ...
Forbes 1:46 pm on April 21, 2024

Meta Integrates Real Time Bing And Google Search With Llama 3 AI Assistant

Meta AI was built on the company's latest large language model called Meta Llama 3, which was announced Thursday.
MediaPost 1:46 pm on April 21, 2024

House Approves Bill Banning TikTok in the US (Again)

Congress tries again with a TikTok ban, this time bundling it into a foreign aid package.
PC Magazine 1:46 pm on April 21, 2024

2024 WordPress Vulnerability Report Shows Errors Sites Keep Making

2024 WPScan WordPress security report shows the mistakes that many sites keep making and leads to compromised websites
Search Engine Journal 3:33 am on April 19, 2024

Bingbot Fully Supports Brotli Compression & Now Tests Zstd Compression

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft announced that BingBot now fully supports Brotli compression and will soon be testing zstd Zstandard compression, a lossless data compression, for its crawler.
Search Engine Roundtable 12:23 pm on April 19, 2024

Apple pulls WhatsApp and Threads from China app store after Beijing order

Telegram and Signal two other foreign messaging apps were also removed from the store on Friday, according to app tracking firms Qimai and AppMagic.
NBC News 1:46 pm on April 21, 2024

The Taylor Swift Album Leak's Big AI Problem

When "The Tortured Poets Department" leaked, some Taylor Swift fans swore it must be AI. Expect that to be a common refrain.
WIRED 1:46 pm on April 21, 2024

Google Says Indexing API May Work For Unsupported Content But...

Gary Illyes from Google said in the recent Google SEO office hours the Google Indexing API may work for unsupported content formats, but that you shouldn't be "surprised if suddenly it stopped working for unsupported ...
Search Engine Roundtable 1:30 pm on April 19, 2024

Meta's supercharged AI assistant is taking over its apps across the world

Meta announced a potent upgrade to Meta AI powered by Llama 3, now deeply integrated into its social apps and available in more countries.
Android Authority 1:30 pm on April 19, 2024

Google Testing More Google Ad Card Formats

Google is testing another ad format, another card like format, for its search ads. We previously saw the vertical and tall ad cards, then the carousel horizontal card format and now here are just plain horizontal ad cards. ...
Search Engine Roundtable 12:57 pm on April 19, 2024

Google Says It's Unlikely Your Rankings Dropped Because You Have Two Websites

Google was asked if having two websites and Google finding out about them would cause the websites to drop in rankings. John Mueller from Google said that is "not likely," adding that many people have several websites ...
Search Engine Roundtable 12:57 pm on April 19, 2024

Google Says Indexing API May Work For Unsupported Content But...

China Forces Apple to Delete WhatsApp, Threads, Signal From Chinese App Store

Apple removes a number of messaging apps from China's iOS App Store, reportedly because of national security concerns and some posts with 'problematic mentions' of China's president.
PC Magazine 1:46 pm on April 21, 2024

Google On If Hyphenated Domains Are Bad For SEO

The topic of using hyphens in domain names is one of the oldest SEO topics we have in this space. Heck, in 2004, SEOs said there was a specific Google ranking algorithm that filtered out domains with hyphens in them (Google ...
Search Engine Roundtable 12:23 pm on April 19, 2024

US House passes another bill that could ban TikTok; US Senate could vote on it next week

The US House of Representatives voted to pass another bill that could ban the use of TikTok in the country. The bill heads to the US Senate who could vote on it sometime next week.
Neowin.net 1:46 pm on April 21, 2024

YouTube escalates war on ad blockers

YouTube users who use ad blockers to avoid advertising on the platform will now see alerts or experience buffering issues.
Search Engine Land 12:06 am on April 18, 2024

AR shopping gets a boost with Best Buy's Apple Vision Pro app

Best Buy has launched an augmented reality app designed exclusively for Apple's latest wearable, the Apple Vision Pro that offers real time product previews.
AppleInsider 1:46 pm on April 21, 2024

Meta could launch Threads ads this year

Brands and marketers might be able to buy ads on the text based platform Threads sooner than expected.
Search Engine Land 6:24 pm on April 18, 2024

Google sacks 28 employees who staged sit in over Israel protest

Demonstrations were held at Google offices in New York and Silicon Valley
GB News 8:57 pm on April 21, 2024

Mark Zuckerberg Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus

Listen now Mark Zuckerberg on: Llama 3 open sourcing towards AGI what he would have done as CEO of Google+ energy constraints on scaling Caeser Augustus, intelligence explosion, bioweapons, $10b models, & much more ...
Dwarkesh Podcast 3:33 am on April 19, 2024

How To Use Speech To Text On Google Docs SlashGear

Google Docs has a built in feature called speech to text that can be very useful in a number of situations. Here's what it does and how to turn it on.
Slashgear 1:30 pm on April 19, 2024

Meta launches new version of Meta AI assistant across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger

Meta launches new version of Meta AI assistant across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger
Phone Arena 1:46 pm on April 21, 2024

Google fires 28 staff after office sit ins to protest cloud contract with Israel

Google has fired 28 employees involved in protests over the tech company's cloud computing contract with the Israeli government, according to statements from the company and campaigners.
The Irish Independent 12:12 pm on April 22, 2024

Meta rolls out new Meta AI website, and it might just bury Microsoft and Google's AI dreams

Meta AI has gotten an upgrade and a new web interface, and it just might be the true ChatGPT killer
TechRadar 12:12 pm on April 22, 2024

Now Google is using AI to answer search queries" Human like' responses show

Google has been trying to experiment with its algorithm lately and has been coming up with ways to inculcate AI in its answers and search results.
Hindustan Times 12:12 pm on April 22, 2024

Reddit Traffic Triples, Posts Prioritized in Google Search Entrepreneur

Reddit traffic has risen from 132 million visits in August 2023 to a projected 346 million in April. Reddit made its public market debut last month and inked a deal with Google in February that allows Google to train AI on ...
Entrepreneur Magazine 12:12 pm on April 22, 2024

Building Quality Backlinks: Off Page SEO Tactics for Healthcare

Click here to discover 4 strategies that can help build the authority and boost the visibility of your healthcare e commerce!
Linkody's 12:36 pm on April 18, 2024

Google Fires 28 Employees for Protesting Cloud Contract With Israel, Impeding Others' Work Algemeiner.com

Google said on Thursday it had terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in protests against the company's cloud contract with the Israeli government. The Alphabet unit said a small number of protesting employees ...
The Algemeiner 12:12 pm on April 22, 2024

U.S. search ad revenues hit record $88.8 billion in 2023

Search continues to account for the largest share of digital ad spending. Search revenue grew 5.2% year on year.
Search Engine Land 12:06 am on April 18, 2024

Google Discontinues Video Carousel Markup

Google has discontinued its support for video carousel markup and has thus removed it from its video structured data help documentation. Initially, Google tested video carousel on a limited number of sites and is now saying ...
Search Engine Roundtable 12:36 pm on April 18, 2024

Google Drive rolls out enhanced search on Android so you can find your files quicker

Google Drive rolls out enhanced search on Android so you can find your files quicker
Phone Arena 2:04 pm on April 20, 2024

Google Ads Notifies Advertisers That Some Ad Customizers Will Go Away May 31st

On August 31, 2021, Google notified advertisers it would drop support for expanded text ads for responsive search ads. Google is now reminding advertisers that Ad customizers for text ads, expanded text ads and Dynamic Search ...
Search Engine Roundtable 12:36 pm on April 18, 2024

Google Ends Video Carousel Structured Data Test

Google abruptly drops support for the video carousel (limited access) rich results because it wasn't useful for the "ecosystem" at scale
Search Engine Journal 12:36 pm on April 18, 2024

Google Notes On Search May End Date Does Not Mean Notes Will Go Away In May

There have been some people noticing that the Google Notes On Search labs experiment has an end date of May 2024 and thus they are expecting Notes on Search to be turned off by then. Just because it has that end date listed, ...
Search Engine Roundtable 12:36 pm on April 18, 2024

Google Business Profiles Register Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

Google sent out emails a couple of days ago to businesses asking them to register their Automated External Defibrillator (AED) with Google Business Profiles. Google said, "you could save lives" if you do it.
Search Engine Roundtable 12:36 pm on April 18, 2024

Google Maps will no longer store review drafts (not that anyone knew it could)

As of July, Google Maps will delete any review drafts, functionality that most users probably didn't even know existed.
9to5Google 12:06 am on April 18, 2024

Google AdSense launches new Ad Intents format for Auto ads

Publishers have a new option for Auto ads to appear on their website, in the form of links and anchors.
Search Engine Land 12:06 am on April 18, 2024

India antitrust body to probe Google's in app billing amid dispute with startups Cyprus Mail

India's antitrust body on Friday ordered a probe into Alphabet Inc's Google (GOOGL.O) in an ongoing dispute with local startups over its in app billing system, saying the U.S. company implemented its policies in a "discriminatory ...
Cyprus Mail 6:35 pm on April 15, 2024

New Google Maps Directions, Travel & EV Features

Google has announced a number of new travel features with Google Maps and Travel around driving alternatives, trains and buses, travel impact mode and then some new EV driving direction features. Google says these features ...
Search Engine Roundtable 12:36 pm on April 18, 2024

Preparing For 3rd Party Cookie Deprecation: How To Adjust Your Data Collection Strategy

Are you ready for the end of third party cookies in Google Chrome" Join us live and learn how to navigate the upcoming changes.
Search Engine Journal 12:06 am on April 18, 2024

Google Must Face Antitrust Claims For Phasing Out Flash

"The complaint plausibly alleges that through its Chrome browser, Google abruptly transitioned from allowing video platforms to play through the long established Adobe Flash to HTML5, and disabled Flash advertisements ...
MediaPost 3:04 am on April 11, 2024

Google AdSense Publishers Seeing Huge RPM Earnings Drops

Many Google AdSense publishers have been reporting massive declines in their earnings and RPMs (page revenue per thousand impressions) since late February. This comes a couple of weeks after we reported the switch from CPC ...
Search Engine Roundtable 12:03 pm on April 15, 2024

Google Adding Features to Maps and Search to Promote More Sustainable Travel

Google said Wednesday that it is releasing new features that share options for traveling in ways that are more environmentally friendly.
Skift 12:06 am on April 18, 2024

Google Search Results Can Be Harmful & Dangerous In Some Cases

Over the past few weeks, Google's Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, has been replying to complaints about some examples of search results being not just low quality but also potentially harmful and dangerous. The sad part to ...
Search Engine Roundtable 2:11 pm on April 11, 2024

More Google Core Ranking Volatility Hits Yesterday/Today

I know we just reported on more volatility this Monday, possibly related to the Google March 2024 core update, but we are seeing even more volatility over the past 24 hours related to this update. This volatility shows deepening ...
Search Engine Roundtable 1:26 pm on April 17, 2024

Google Maps Dropping Draft Reviews

Google Maps will soon stop supporting drafting reviews for local business listings and Google Business Profiles. Google said that starting July 16, 2024, review drafts will no longer be supported.
Search Engine Roundtable 1:26 pm on April 17, 2024

Google Search Console Unused Ownership Tokens

Google Search Console has a new security feature under user and permission management to help you manage your unused ownership tokens. Basically, it helps you manage who has permissions to your Search Console profiles and ...
Search Engine Roundtable 1:26 pm on April 17, 2024

Google Ads Adds AI Generated Image Tool For Demand Gen Campaigns

Google Ads announced that Demand Gen campaigns are getting generative AI tools to create image assets. This is rolling out to advertisers around the world in English with more languages to come later this year, Google said. ...
Search Engine Roundtable 1:26 pm on April 17, 2024

Should Google Explain The Crawl Stats Report in Search Console

Martin Splitt from Google posted a one line question asking, "Should we do something to explain the crawl stats report in GSC"" This was posted on Mastodon, which has a small audience, but the responses were pretty ...
Search Engine Roundtable 1:26 pm on April 17, 2024

Japan readies antitrust action against Google over search ads

Regulator expected to accept voluntary improvement plan in case involving Yahoo tie up
Nikkei Asian Review 6:35 pm on April 15, 2024

Google Removes Links to Some California News Sites to Protest Fee Proposal

Google has begun removing California news websites from search results for some users in response to a state proposal that would require the search giant to pay media companies for linking to their content. The tech giant ...
NTD News (Video) 11:54 am on April 16, 2024