Google’s potential HubSpot acquisition is expected to face resistance from both U.S. and European antitrust regulators. Although Google hasn’t officially bid to acquire the online marketing software company, valued at $35 billion, experts are discussing whether such a move could curb competition. While some argue it wouldn’t significantly limit competition, many believe that such a … Read more
Vetted.ai is one of many AI chatbots that are gaining traction in Google search. It’s not much, maybe 10,000 monthly visits, but Google found the site to be the best result for ~100 keywords. Trend: growing. Organic traffic and top 3 keywords for vetted.ai (Image Credit: Kevin Indig) A click on one of Vetted AI’s … Read more
Microsoft reportedly tried to sell Bing to Apple in 2018 – but failed. The sale was unsuccessful because Apple had concerns about Bing’s search quality, advertising unit and monetization capabilities, according to a document in Google’s antitrust case against the U.S. Justice Department. Google argues that the failed sale highlights that Bing lost out because … Read more
Last week, Google revealed it signed a deal with Reddit to access its content using an API so it can get the content faster and in a structured format. This deal costs Google $60 million annually. There is now speculation that Google might make a similar deal with Quora. Glenn Gabe posted that Quora’s number … Read more
Google spoke more about the time it takes to recover from a helpful content update and then said it is up to you to decide ice what old content is helpful or not. Google said it wants to reward the best content no matter the site size. Meanwhile, Google will now pay Reddit $60 million … Read more
Google announced a deal with Reddit to gain access to real-time access to all of its content so that Google can show even more Reddit content than it already does and to gain access to all of its content for training ******. The agreement between Google and Reddit is explicit that this will result in … Read more
Now we know – Google is the unnamed AI company that Reddit reached a content licensing deal with, Reuters reported. Why we care. Reddit was already facing backlash among SEOs because Google appears to be favoring the platform in the Discussions and forums SERP feature. Reddit is even outranking original sources of content in some … Read more
Amazon has secured a landmark deal with Reach, the UK’s largest publisher, to access customer data for targeted advertising. The agreement, one of the first of its kind in Europe, comes in response to Google’s plans to deprecate third-party cookies later this year. Why we care. As advertisers explore options beyond third-party cookies for targeted … Read more
Yandex, N.V. has agreed to sell its Russian assets – including the Yandex search engine – as part of a deal worth 475 billion rubles (roughly $5.2 billion). Reports of a coming sale emerged in November. The sale still will need regulatory and shareholder approval. About the sale. Yandex N.V., the Dutch parent company of the … Read more
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, posted this morning that the search company has changes coming to better deal with the recent flux of search spam we’ve all been seeing in the search results. He said it just sometimes takes time to fully put these changes into place but they are on their way. This comes … Read more
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