Google has added a new “activities” section to some business types within Google Business Profiles. It seems to be for some sort of hotel like businesses but not all hotels see this option yet, so maybe it is being tested. Google lets you add multiple activity names, the price for the activity, the type of […]
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Microsoft Bing Patent On Web Site/Content Reliability Scores
Microsoft has published a new patent application named Web Content Reliability Classification (US 20230350956 A1). It seems this patent describes how to figure out a reliability score for a website or portion of the content on a website for use in Bing Search. Of course, you need to keep in mind that just because a […]
Microsoft: Bing Chat Demand Not Going Down
Some may feel like all the buzz around Microsoft and Bing Chat is somewhat dwindling but according to Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO, Advertising and Web Services at Microsoft, that is not true. He said that demand is not dwindling and Bing Chat just keeps getting better and more efficient. Mikhail Parakhin was asked on X […]
New Google Ads Policy Disallows Location Assets For Closed Locations
Google has sent out an email to some advertisers using location asserts within Google Ads with “new policy requirements.” In short, it says that if your location is closed, not recognized, or does not match the business ads location, then Google Ads location assets are not allowed. Google wrote, “Locations that are closed, not recognized […]
November 2023 Google Webmaster Report
Here is the big Google webmaster report for November 2023 and it is a big one. We had three confirmed updates; the November 2023 core update and a couple weeks later the October 2023 core update and also the October 2023 spam update. And there was a bug with the core update that led to […]
Google Search Shop Deals Shows Commerce-Like Interface With Products By Category
Google Search seems to be widely testing an e-commerce-like interface where it shows products and shopping deals by category. The page is filled with the product grid interface, with a special shop deals top design (not the shop deals banner) and then various categories of products in that grid format. Glenn Gabe spotted this and […]
AdSense for Search To Stop Serving Over Google, Ad Personalization Deprecating
Google announced late on Friday that AdSense for Search (AFS), AdSense for Shopping (AFSh), and Programmable Search Engine (ProSE) will stop serving ads over google.com and this will also mean that ad personalization will be deprecated for these products because Google cookies will no longer be available to them. Google wrote, “Starting in November 2023, […]