Google accused the U.S. government of wanting to punish it for being more successful than its competitors. The company made the comments in an unsealed post-trial brief submitted to a DC federal judge as part of its ongoing legal battle with the U.S. Department of Justice, which has accused it of unlawfully monopolizing the search … Read more
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google is now paying Reddit for its content, when no one really wants to see Reddit content in Google Search anymore. Google Ads is changing its Ad … Read more
Best of the SearchBot showcases Search Engine Land’s SearchBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. The language model is based on content from Search Engine Land layered on top of ChatGPT. The editors of Search Engine Land selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative AI … Read more
Google is investigating a Local Services Ads bug that’s causing businesses to appear in search results for their competitors’ names. The issue comes just weeks after the platform started piloting branded Local Service Ads (LSA) called Direct Business Search. This new ad type allows brands to show up in search results when someone directly searches … Read more
Blog / SEO Strategy / 8 Data Visualization Dashboards for SEOs with Looker Studio Templates Data visualization is the art of taking data and information about your business and creating a graphical representation of it as a way to tell a story about its performance. It is the process of taking raw data and transforming … Read more
Bing Search now has these yellow “opinion” labels on news stories within its search results. The label is overlayed on the news story’s image and really makes the story stand out from the others. This was spotted by Shameem Adhikarath who posted some examples on X, I was able to replicate this, so here is … Read more
LinkedIn released a new guide detailing actionable steps and tactics you can take now to maximize campaign performance in the absence of third-party cookies. Amid regulatory changes and reduced identifiers, the playbook offers advice on how to meet the demand for personalized ad experiences in a cookieless world. Why we care. As the deprecation of … Read more
Google released version 16 of the Google Ads API yesterday. The update includes additional recommendation types, support for time-related segments, support for advertiser verification, plus much more. This is a major update since the last update, version 15 back in October 2023. Then before that was version 14.1 which was released in August. Version 13.1 … Read more
Migrating a large website is always daunting. Big traffic is at stake among many moving parts, technical challenges and stakeholder management. Historically, one of the most onerous tasks in a migration plan has been redirect mapping. The painstaking process of matching URLs on your current site to the equivalent version on the new website. Fortunately, … Read more
Google has announced a deal with Reddit to gain access to its content using the Reddit Data API reportedly worth $60 million annually. Yes, Google is paying Reddit to get access to its publicly available content through an API that should make it faster for Google to consume and show us all that content. Not … Read more
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