Google adds PrestaShop to list of e-commerce integrations
Google now has shopping integrations for retailers on Shopify, WooCommerce, GoDaddy, Square, BigCommerce and PrestaShop.
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Google Ads will soon block ad targeting based on age, gender or interests of people under 18
In the coming months, Google Ads will be expanding safeguards to prevent age-sensitive ad categories from being shown to teens.
Google expands its shopping integrations to include retailers on WooCommerce, GoDaddy and Square
Retailers on those platforms can more easily show their products for free across Google.
Google I/O announcements, what you need to know; Friday’s daily brief
Plus new Google Ads smart bidding features.
Amazon now accounts for more than 10% of U.S. digital ad market revenue; Wednesday’s daily brief
Plus, Google's new product leads and Yelp introduces a new diversity attribute for business profiles.
Google goes dark theme and passage ranking sees the light: Friday’s daily brief
Plus, making the case for more Google Search Console data.
Antisemitic memes in image results highlight vulnerabilities in search
“Data voids” enable offensive content to rise to the top of the search results.
Google adds ClaimReview or Fact Check schema support for images
This won't improve your rankings but it may lead to better click-through rates.
Google adds new image license metadata for licensable image label
Google is beta testing a new way for sites to display licensing information about content that appears in Google Images.
Bing says it has been applying BERT since April
The natural language processing capabilities are now applied to all Bing queries globally.
Google extends Shopping ads to more YouTube inventory
Plus, Showcase Shopping ads open to more categories and Image Search, and a beta to include sitelinks in TrueView for action ads proved successful.
Google beats out Microsoft, Amazon, IBM in image recognition study
Image search recognition is getting pretty good, here is a study that shows how good it is right now.
‘Swipe to Visit’ has arrived on Google Images
AMP-enabled sites will display as previews on image search results.
Decompose your ads, not your brand
It's time to rethink the way brand assets are put together because now we have less control over dynamic ad formats in the final version.
Bing turns 10: Why it’s been more disruptive than you think
A look back, and ahead, at Microsoft's search business.
Demystifying Google’s guide to clicks, impressions and position in Google Search Console
Here are the answers to the most common questions asked about managing metrics in the Performance reporting in GSC.
Bing adds election information, redesigns image search, provides NFL answers, and word of the day
Bing highlights some search features that are popular during the upcoming season.
Google announces cards, discovery tools, revamped image search at 20th anniversary event
Most of the new features were for mobile devices and focused on structured data and machine learning.
Ask the SMXperts — Page speed, site migrations and crawling
Our SMXperts share their tactical insights on optimizing crawl budgets, fine-tuning page speed and how to execute on large-scale error-free site migrations.
Bing improves visual search, adds educational carousel, American Sign Language and NFL answers
Microsoft's search engine adds a robust image search feature and educational results just in time for the school year.
Google debuts Shoppable Image ads, video in Shopping Showcase ads
The new formats, introduced for the holiday season, are intended to help advertisers attract new customers.
Google Analytics shows how to find Google Image search traffic when Google Images changes the referral URL
Curious how Google Analytics will show your traffic coming from Google Image search after the pre-announced referrer URL change? Google has documented it for us in a blog post.
Bing ‘intelligent search’ capabilities continue to expand, include facts from multiple sources
Bing also shares more about the platform it built to power intelligent search.
Google Chrome extensions bringing back ‘View Image’ & ‘Search by Image’ buttons in Google Image Search
Google killed off some much-loved features in image search. Now here are some Chrome extensions that bring back that functionality.
Bing explains how AI-powered intelligent answers can show users two points of view for the same query
Multi-perspective answers is another example of how Bing is using artificial intelligence to inform richer search results.
Bing announces AI-powered new ‘intelligent search’ features
None of the features or changes is disruptive, but they collectively point to the fact that search evolution is accelerating.
Google adds new ‘save’ & bookmarking feature, which you can access in a new hamburger menu
Google makes another attempt at allowing users to save their search results to a single location.
Bing Visual Search lets you search specific objects within images
Bing joins Google, Pinterest and others in upgrading its image search capabilities.
6 key paid search trends from Merkle’s Q1 2017 report
Here's a look at what's happening with Shopping ads, expanded text ads, device bidding and more.
Google image search adds ‘style ideas’ after ‘similar items’ goes live
Google says with the new image search feature, they can "help boost your search style IQ."
Google announces similar items schema for image search on mobile
New search feature covers small group of product types now, but Google says it will expand in the coming months.
2016: The year in paid search (A year of massive change!)
This year will be seen as a watershed moment for mobile, with nearly every change reflecting mobile's now-dominant contribution to search.
AMP results now showing in Google Image Search
AMP is now showing up in the mobile Google Image search results.
Bing’s ‘My Saves’ feature lets users save video, image and shopping searches across devices
The new feature lets users save an image, video or shopping search result to their "My Saves" folder which can be accessed across mobile devices and desktop.
Carousels of Google Shopping ads spotted on YouTube
Testing an expansion of Shopping Ads on YouTube.
Apple brings Siri to Mac, new exposure for non-Google search engines
Soon, you will finally be able to search the web from your Mac desktop -- and Google won't be a default provider.
Bing app for iOS brings image-based searching to iPhones
Image search feature has potential to be quite useful, but needs improvement.
Copyright bully Getty Images complains to EU that Google coerced it into image search
Company says high-res image search results have harmed traffic and revenues.
Google drove 95 percent of US smartphone paid search clicks in Q1 [Merkle]
Product listing ads continue to drive growth with added exposure on mobile and search partners.
Dark search, dark social & everything in between
Certain types of web traffic do not pass referral information on to our analytics programs, making it difficult to properly track these visits. Contributor Maggie Malek recaps a session from SMX West detailing how to handle this "dark" web traffic.