Facebook’s extensive monitoring of its users’ online activities has been exposed in a new study. The research conducted by Consumer Reports indicates that, on average, an astonishing 2,230 companies actively share data about each user with the social networking app. In some instance, users had their data shared with Facebook by as many as 7,000…
Google is on trial for allegedly using underhand tactics to ensure it stays the world’s leading search engine. The U.S. Justice Department claims Google, which owns a 90% market share in search, paid massive sums to companies like Apple to make it the default search engine on products like the iPhone. These multibillion-dollar deals gave…
Google Ads launched advanced “Performance Planner” plans, now including tailored strategies for YouTube campaigns, with a focus on Demand Gen for both Action and Awareness goals. Why we care. These new plans allow advertisers to better align their full marketing strategy with campaign goals, offering customizable options for budget, ad format, buying method, and campaign…
Google is piloting a new SERPs feature called “highly rated” for Local Services ads (LSA). As part of the experiment, when users input a local business query into the search engine, Google is now testing the display of a sponsored box featuring a selection of LSAs with top reviews in specific verticals. The featured ads…
Here is a cool piece of swag from the Google Hong Kong office. It is some sort of transparent YouTube cube. I am not sure what it does, it might be one of those speaker blocks or just a prop. I spotted this on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of…
Google is updating its consent management requirements for AdSense for Search, AdSense for Domains, and Programmable Search Engine in Switzerland. Key points: Effective July 31. Applies to ads served to users in Switzerland, in addition to the EEA and UK. Aims to comply with the EU User Consent Policy. New requirements. Publishers must either: Use…
Goggle Ads is updating the unacceptable business pactices portion of its Misrepresentation policy. From March, this section will include: “Enticing users to part with money or information by impersonating or falsely implying affiliation with or endorsement by a public figure, brand, or organization.” Enforcement. Google will begin enforcing this policy in March for advertisers outside…
Google is actively looking into improving brand safety controls for Performance Max (PMax) following a damning report by Adalytics. The research, which was published last month, accused the search engine of serving ads on inappropriate non-Google websites through the Search Partner Network (SPN). Google denied the accusations but began giving advertisers the choice to opt…
Bing Chat will soon allow you to copy and image to your clipboard and paste it directly into the query or search box. This will make it faster than manually uploading the image to Bing Chat. Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft Bing’s CEO, said on Twitter that this feature should be live on Monday, August 28th. Here…
Gizmodo published an article “exposing” CNET for deleting thousands of pages, as they put it to “game Google Search.” What CNET did. “Thousands of articles” were deleted in recent weeks (CNET declined to provide an exact number), according to Gizmodo. CNET confirmed the content culling. CNET decided which pages to “redirect, repurpose or remove (deprecate)”…