Why Google dropped Bing Discover pages from its index
No matter how big you are, if you go against Google's guidelines it can end up biting you....
Jul 17, 2019 at 8:24 am ET
Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on SEM topics.
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