Google Wants Highly Satisfied Chrome Android Users to Boost Its Play Store Rating
Google is testing a Chrome Android app rating prompt that asks users to rate the browser on the Play Store. The test targets highly satisfied users.
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OpenAI and Microsoft saw the publisher traffic problem coming, court filing says
Newly unredacted material cites internal messages, executive testimony and Microsoft data showing steep click-through declines for news sites in Copilot compared with traditional Bing.
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Google’s bot crackdown is messing with your SEO reports
Sistrix confirms slower data collection, while Nozzle reports a sharp reduction in the Google results it can retrieve.
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Google wants adult products labeled, not left to its imagination
Merchants selling adult-oriented products should flag them in Merchant Center or structured data. Google says normal organic Search visibility is unaffected.
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Google wants adult products labeled, not left to its imagination
Merchants selling adult-oriented products should flag them in Merchant Center or structured data. Google says normal organic Search visibility is unaffected.
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Google wants adult products labeled, not left to its imagination
Merchants selling adult-oriented products should flag them in Merchant Center or structured data. Google says normal organic Search visibility is unaffected.
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Google wants adult products labeled, not left to its imagination
Merchants selling adult-oriented products should flag them in Merchant Center or structured data. Google says normal organic Search visibility is unaffected.
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Google wants adult products labeled, not left to its imagination
Merchants selling adult-oriented products should flag them in Merchant Center or structured data. Google says normal organic Search visibility is unaffected.
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Google is turning local Knowledge Panels into AI Overviews
Google is testing AI Overviews inside local business panels, giving its AI a bigger role in describing what a business does.
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GA4’s Singapore bot problem is back, and some of it now looks almost human
Publishers and site owners are reporting another wave of suspicious traffic from Singapore, with Google Analytics dashboards filling up with visitors who do not behave much like visitors.
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Bing tests showing favicons in Shopping ad results
Bing is testing favicons within Shopping ad results, following a similar change recently seen on Google — a small update that could help build user trust.
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Google Free Listings now shows Visit site button in product grid
Google Free Listings is now showing a clickable ‘Visit site’ button alongside price and website name in the product grid, a change that could help boost CTR.
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Google Free Listings now shows Visit site button in product grid
Google Free Listings is now showing a clickable ‘Visit site’ button alongside price and website name in the product grid, a change that could help boost CTR.
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Wikipedia plans to test Google Preferred Sources as search traffic falls
Wikipedia wants to find out whether asking Google visitors to mark it as a Preferred Source can turn a search click into a repeat reader.
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Google ordered to let rivals into its ad-tech walled garden
A federal court is making Google connect AdX and DFP to Prebid and let rival publisher ad servers access AdX demand. Publishers may have to wait up to 15 months for the doors to actually open.
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Perplexity is betting on creators as AI search’s new distribution layer
Perplexity is putting multimillion-dollar budgets behind creator campaigns as brands increasingly look at creator content as a source of visibility in AI search.
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Bing tests hiding sitelink descriptions until hovered
Bing is testing hidden sitelink descriptions that only appear when a user hovers over the link, a shift from showing all descriptions by default.
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Google tests Chrome desktop Search with AI Mode from the Windows taskbar
Google is testing a new Chrome desktop Search experience that brings AI Mode, Google Lens, and Windows taskbar access together.
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Anthropic merges Claude Cowork into Claude chat
Claude users will no longer need to choose between regular chat and Cowork for more complex tasks.
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New Google Ads Spend Benchmarks feature will put peer pressure on your budget
Google’s new Spend Benchmarks report shows how your ad spend compares with similar businesses. But the first public example suggests advertisers should be careful about treating peer spending as a target.
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