Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google says again, what Google wants to rank well in search is what users like, so do what users like. Google’s right to be forgotten take down…
In a recent update, Google has mandated that all third-party providers include a dedicated opt-out landing page within the New Merchant Experience (NMX) dashboard. This page must clearly outline the steps a merchant can follow to disconnect their Google Business Profile (GBP) from any booking, waitlist, or food ordering application. Regaining control from third-party providers…
Google will be providing credit refunds to advertisers who were overcharged due to a technical glitch. The error affected a small number of campaigns within Display and Video 360 that ran from July through to December last year. Why we care. If your campaigns were affected by the technical glitch, make sure to contact Google…
Yelp’s ad revenue increased by 13% to a record $1.28 billion in the final quarter of 2023. Ad clicks for the year experienced a year-over-year growth of 5%, while the average cost per click (CPC) increased by 9%. Services sector. Yelp reported a record-breaking $793 million in advertising revenue from Services businesses in 2023, marking…
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…
Snapchat is teaming up with Foshpa to offer its advertisers enhanced campaign insights. The partnership will enable users to measure the impact and effectiveness of ads on the platform more efficiently with a particular focus on cross-marketing return on ad spend (ROAS). It will also allow advertisers to directly compare their Snapchat results to other…
Amazon’s reign as the king of ecommerce won’t end any time soon. There were over 15 billion worldwide visits to Amazon.com in 2023. The continued flood of purchase-ready visitors makes Amazon lucrative for sellers who can stand out and generate sales from the platform. This year, Amazon’s core belief behind its algorithm remains straightforward. They…
Google is disputing claims made about Privacy Sandbox by an IAB Tech Lab report. The Privacy Sandbox might make it harder for the marketing industry to show effective ads and could put smaller brands and media companies at a big disadvantage, according to the study. Google responded by stating that the report contains “many inaccuracies”…
In the vast universe of data, it’s not always about what we can see but rather what we can infer. Confidence intervals, a cornerstone of inferential statistics, empower us to make educated guesses about a larger population based on our sample data. Using the Ames Housing dataset, let’s unravel the concept of confidence intervals…
One of the pre-processing steps that are often carried out on images before feeding them into a machine learning algorithm is to convert them into a feature vector. As we will see in this tutorial, there are several advantages to converting an image into a feature vector that makes the latter more efficient. Among…