Bing Chat will be adding a feature to tell it not to search the web for an answer. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing Search at Microsoft, said on Twitter, “#nosearch is coming” when asked if Bing Chat can exclude web search results from the answers. So in the future, you should be able to…
Google Ads introduced a new tCPA (target Cost Per Action) Insight Box for Demand Gen campaigns, following a similar feature for Performance Max and Standard Shopping campaigns. Why it matters: This new feature can help you quickly assess advertising campaign performance and make data-driven decisions to optimize your ad spend. Key features: Shows if Actual…
Google Search may be having a new indexing or serving (or both) bug where it is now showing new content from sites that are creating new content. Sites like the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, CNN, Forbes, and others are showing very few new pages being indexed in the past hour by Google Search. While…
The Google interface we know today will be gone in less than three years. As ridiculous as this prediction may seem, I remember back in 2004 when Google.com finally overtook Yahoo.com. For eight years, no one thought that would ever happen, but it did. Why? Simply put, Yahoo had the best user experience on the…
YouTube introduced four new updates for shopping creators, aimed at enhancing conversions, providing inspiration, and offering more choices. These updates include: Shopping Collections. The Affiliate Hub. Enhanced tagging. Fourthwall. Why we care. If you are a YouTube Shopping creator or a brand that sells products on the platform, these new capabilities and features could be…
Studies show that loyal customers are responsible for as much as 65% of all brand purchases. In turbulent economic times, when consumers become warier with every penny they spend and brands are increasingly desperate to keep the income flowing, loyalty programs play a pivotal role in fostering retention and increased spending. But creating a loyalty…
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…
Google seems to be testing a Google Pay Accepted label or icon in the Google search results. This label has the super G logo followed by the words “Pay accepted” words next to search result snippets that support Google Pay and notate such in their structured data. This was first spotted by Khushal Bherwani who…
Three-quarters of leading brands in the US and UK reportedly fall victim to identity theft in Google Search Ads. Consequences range from financial losses for the targeted business to customers becoming victims of fraud, according to a new report by search marketing security firm, Marcode. How it works. Scammer trick consumers by impersonating the targeted…
Google Optimize will not be available after Sept. 30. This means you will no longer be able to create or edit experiments, personalizations, or view experiment reports after this date. However, you will still be able to run A/B tests in Google Analytics 4. Why we care. Moving forward, you will need to use GA4 to…