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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google My Business revamps photo management for Google Maps listingsJan 25, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Google aims to make it easier for business owners to manage …

In its annual Bad Ads report, Google says it took down more than double the number of ads in 2016 that it did in 2015 by removing 1.7 billion ads, compared to the 780 million removed in 2015. Google credited several changes for the big increase in removed ads. The new …

Mike Blumenthal reports Google is rolling out a new interface for businesses to manage their photos for their Google Maps listing. The new interface has replaced categories with tags, it added a new way to post your cover photo, the profile photo and a your company’s logo. “While the profile …

Paid search spend growth held steady in Q4 with 14 percent growth year over year, according to Merkle’s latest Digital Marketing Report. That’s up from 13 percent growth seen in Q3. Google’s many changes, including device separation, helped drive growth. In Q4, CPCs were off just 0.5 percent, and click …

It looks like Google is back at it with testing ad label variations in the search results. After transitioning from yellow to green in 2016, Google appears to be testing a green outlined label. Twitter user @matibarnes  in the UK shared a screenshot on Twitter Tuesday. Here’s the test treatment he spotted …

Confirming reports from earlier this month that a Google Voice update was in the works, Google today has launched a refreshed version of its VoIP calling service on mobile and the web. Largely, the update is about giving the product a more modern look-and-feel, after having not received a major …

One of the biggest surprises at last year’s Google I/O developer conference was the announcement of Instant Apps for Android. These new kinds of apps are meant to help bridge the gap between web apps and native apps. The idea here is to break native apps into very small packets that, because they …

Today’s Google Doodle pays tribute to Ed Roberts, an early leader of the disability rights movement and co-founder of the World Institute on Disability. After contracting polio at age 14, Roberts was paralyzed from the neck down. In spite of spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair and …

Google’s Satyajeet Salgar announced on Twitter that the company has launched the “book preview” feature you’ve seen on Google desktop search, now on the mobile search results. So if you are in a region where book previews are allowed, such as in the United States, and a book has previews …

This is the Google update all search marketers have been waiting for! We’re thrilled to announce that Google will again host the Google Dance, an evening of fun and activities for the SEO and SEM community attending Search Engine Land’s upcoming Search Marketing Expo Conference in San Jose, CA. (Note: …