Epic Games’ beef with Apple and Google has escalated quickly in the last 24 hours. The events of yesterday led to Fortnite’s removal from both the App Store and the Play Store, lawsuits against both Google and Apple, and lots of Twitter hashtags. Things started to snowball when Epic …
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Google has now explained the massive search bug from yesterday was related to an issue with its indexing systems. Google wrote, “On Monday we detected an issue with our indexing systems that affected Google search results. Once the issue was identified, it was promptly fixed by our Site Reliability Engineers …
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Google My Business (GMB) profiles now indicate when business hours were last updated. A small but important change, this happened roughly two weeks ago. Not a test. Some SEOs interpreted this as a test when it first appeared, but I confirmed with Google today that it’s not. In the examples …
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Google extends lead forms to YouTube, Discovery campaigns Google has been testing lead form ad extensions in Search campaigns since last fall. Now, advertisers can use the lead form extensions in YouTube and Discovery campaign ads as well. The company also announced new initiatives to automate data imports into Google …
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Google Play Music, which debuted in 2011, has been on the chopping block ever since Google decided to refocus its music streaming efforts on the YouTube brand. Now, Google is bringing the blade down. YouTube Music will take over completely from Play Music, with the latter shutting down forever …
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Google Details Its Plans for Windows Apps on Chrome OS Google announced earlier this year that it plans to enable Chromebook users to run Windows apps thanks to a partnership with Parallels. Now, we have more information on how this will work. A new interview lays out the options Google considered …
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Google adds ‘Black-owned’ business attribute to local listings Verified Google My Business profile owners in the U.S. can now add a Black-owned business attribute to their listings. Business attributes are highlighted as icons when customers view a business’ profile on mobile, as shown below. The new Black-owned business attribute. Source: …
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Google is testing a larger font size in ad headlines. The first headline displays in a considerably larger font on line one with a second headline appearing below it. The test was spotted by PPC hubbub. We have been able to replicate this on the Google mobile app. In the …
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About Google updates In covering Google algorithm updates for almost twenty-years now, one trend you notice over and over again is how SEOs tend to do two things. Many SEOs blame a Google algorithm update for their ranking declines and many SEOs often try to figure out which ranking factors …
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Buy on Google goes commission-free, will enable checkout via PayPal, Shopify Earlier this year, Google surprised merchants by opening up the Google Shopping tab in its search results to free product listings. Now for the next phase of the shakeup: commission-free access to Buy on Google, the company’s native checkout …
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