The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) now has 111 potential concerns over Google’s Privacy Sandbox, according to its April Q1 2024 report. That’s up from 72 in the CMA’s Q4 2023 report, released January. Why we care. The CMA’s January report made it clear that Google couldn’t proceed with third-party cookie deprecation. Sure enough, … Read more
Threads is a microblogging app, new X (Twitter) rival operated by Meta. Launched in July 2023, Threads gained 2 million signups in 2 hours since its launch. By day 5 since launch, Threads already had crossed a milestone of 100 million signups. Following the initial interest in new social media, Threads growth has declined but … Read more
Google is testing replacing the “call” button in the Google Ads, including Local Service Ads, with a “get phone number” button. This is a much longer phrase to use, but it is much more descriptive of what the button actually does; it gives you the phone number to call on your own. We see Google … Read more
Microsoft is testing removing the estimated number of search results count in the Bing Search results interface. This comes after Bing began testing removing the cache link from the search result snippets. Google has tested this numerous times over the years, both in SGE and not. This one was spotted by Frank Sandtmann who posted … Read more
For years now, Google has shown phone numbers on some search result snippets when Google thinks you want to call that store. We have screen captures of this from 2016 and 2014. But now Google is testing a new button that is more button-like. Khushal Bherwani posted a screenshot on X: This is the style … Read more
Today, in the world of the internet, safeguarding the security of your website is extremely important. Agree? One often overlooked yet critical aspect is hiding the WordPress version number. The version number directly indicates the software’s current state, making it a potential vulnerability for malicious attacks. In this post, we’ll discuss how to hide the … Read more
More than 250 websites now block Google-Extended, the “standalone product token” Google introduced Sept. 28 to let you block Bard, Vertex AI generative APIs and future generations of ****** from accessing your content. That’s according to research shared exclusively with Search Engine Land by the Detailed.com team. Why we care. There has been much debate and discussion … Read more
While Google has a clear definition of what keyword stuffing is on its spam policies page, Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, explained that it is not about the number of times a word is repeated on a page. Rather, it is about how the words on the page read, he explained. Danny Sullivan wrote on … Read more
Bing seems to be testing showing the number of people who visited a website listed in a search ad. The ad in the Bing Search results says X “visitors in the past month.” Here is a screenshot that Khushal Bherwani posted on X of this feature: Google has shown in search results if you visited … Read more
I have been working at Perficient for almost 8 years. I have always enjoyed writing blogs and sharing my knowledge with others. This is my 100th blog post! WOW! I can’t believe I finally made it! Come with me while I take a look back at 8 years worth of content. Series I write a … Read more
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