Google has officially sunset the Google Search Console Mobile Usability report, the Mobile-Friendly Test tool and the Mobile-Friendly Test API today. Google told us back in April 2023 that this would happen on December 1st and Google announced today on December 4th that it has been done. “Today we’re sunsetting Search Console’s Mobile Usability report,…
Microsoft is not banning ads from unverified marketers after all. Instead, the company will only pause ads in a few scenarios while Advertiser Identity Verification (AIV) is completed. Why we care. Advertisers no longer face such severe ad delivery interruptions for not being verified, however, you will still need to complete the Microsoft Ads verification…
Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, is planning to introduce native advertising in related questions, according to Adweek. How it will work. Related questions, which include links to sources, account for 40% of Perplexity’s queries. So Perplexity plans to add relevant, related brand-sponsored questions along with organic questions. Brand safety. It will be “a paramount priority,”…
Google is making it easier for merchants to pull in product listings from their sites through automated “website crawl” feeds in Merchant Center. How it works. Google uses structured data markup on merchant websites to automatically extract up-to-date product information like titles, pricing, availability and images. The big picture. The automated feeds aim to reduce…
Barret Zoph, a research lead at OpenAI, was recently demonstrating the new GPT-4o model and its ability to detect human emotions though a smartphone camera, when ChatGPT misidentified his face as a wooden table. After a quick laugh, Zoph assured GPT-4o that he’s not a table and asked the AI tool to take a…
Did you know that sometimes those bot protection services will serve Google and other search engines noindex directives? Google’s John Mueller said this on X, saying, “Sometimes there’s bot-protection (or a login, interstitial, etc) triggering that has a noindex on it.” He also added that it would be better for them to serve 503 server…
The next phase in ChatGPT’s meteoric rise is the adoption of GPTBot. This new iteration of OpenAI’s technology involves crawling webpages to deepen the output ChatGPT can provide. AI improvement seems positive, but it’s not so clear-cut. Legal and ethical issues surround the technology. GPTBot’s arrival has highlighted these concerns, as many major brands are…
AI is helping PPC managers focus more on strategic initiatives, such as campaign inputs and back-end management, rather than manual operations. Increased efficiency and effectiveness? This evolution is exciting! AI will play an increasingly important role in daily operations as PPC evolves. Here’s a closer look at how AI will impact the daily activities of…
Google may have pressed pause on their phasing out of third-party cookies, but the rest of us don’t have to. While this latest pushback means some businesses may put off their search for a solution, I will instead outline practical steps you can take today to test both alternative targeting and measurement options to successfully…
As a data professional, you should also know how to build predictive models with machine learning to solve business problems. And if you’re interested in machine learning, you’re probably also looking for the best resources to get going. Well, you can always choose a self-paced online course that best aligns with your learning preferences. But…