Google Ads adds AI-powered campaign localization for international expansion
Google's Generative AI can now translate Search campaign assets, keywords, images and landing pages for new international markets
Topic: Dutch language
Google expands AI Brief and adds deeper AI Max reporting
Advertisers are getting more ways to guide AI Max and see exactly how its automation shapes Search ad journeys.
Should multilingual websites add English pages for AI visibility?
New research shows ChatGPT strongly favors English pages, unlike Google AI and Copilot. Here's what that means for your site.
What multilingual regions reveal about the future of AI search
Catalan search behavior exposes a deeper AI retrieval problem: language identification errors reshape rankings, citations, and AI answers.
How Frederick Vallaeys sees AI reshaping the future of paid search
Frederick Vallaeys reflects on how PPC evolved from scrappy arbitrage to AI-driven automation—and what marketers risk missing next.
Google quietly gave 54 publishers control over their Discover profiles. Here’s what they did with it.
The first systematic analysis of Google's invitation-only enhanced publisher profiles on Discover, based on monitoring 46,926 publishers.
Is keyword targeting as impossible as spinning straw into gold?
Once a golden strategy, keyword targeting is losing its shine. In 2025, success comes from intent, behavior, and emotional relevance.
Google November 2023 reviews update now done rolling out
This update will be the last time Google has confirmed a reviews update.
Google shares automatically-created assets FAQ and marketers give their verdict
Ginny Marvin, Product Liaison at Google, has addressed some of the most asked questions she receives about ACA.
Report: Yandex search engine for sale
Yandex, the dominant search and online advertising platform is Russia since 1997, has been in turmoil since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Google releases November 2023 reviews update
This is the third reviews update of the year and the last reviews update Google will likely confirm.
Google rolls out automatically created assets to all advertisers
ACAs are also now available in seven new languages.
Google releases April 2023 reviews update
Google is no longer just looking at product reviews. Google's review system is now evaluating reviews about services, media and other topics.
Study: 31% of international websites contain hreflang errors
Conflicting hreflang directives and missing self-referencing tags are among the widespread issues plaguing international websites today.
Google February 2023 product reviews update more volatile than previous updates, say data providers
Semrush compared the sixth release against the July 2022 version, while Rank Ranger compared it against September 2022 data.
Google February 2023 product reviews update is finished rolling out
This update took 14 days to fully roll out and is now complete.
Google releases February 2023 product reviews update
This update brings new languages to the product reviews update including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Polish.
Google adds structured data support for pros and cons on product markup
Even if you don't use this markup, Google may still show pros and cons in the product search result snippets.
Google adds Journeys to Chrome: search your history by topic
Want to resume searching for topics you did days or weeks ago? Google Chrome's new Journeys feature makes it easy to do.
MUM’s the word, and it’s 1,000x more powerful than BERT; Wednesday’s daily brief
Plus, updated phrase match will roll out to all languages in July
Alexa, Google Home now battling perception of being ‘surveillance’ devices
A new incident fuels the perception that smart speakers are spying on their owners.
Google Assistant everywhere: more dedicated buttons, expansion on lower-end phones
The company is also adding local search suggestions in Messages.
Google rolling out more features for responsive search ads, adding 10 languages
New tools in the web interface are designed to make creating RSAs easier.
Google Assistant to get multiple new languages, distribution and skills
The Assistant will soon speak 30 languages and be able to offer mobile carrier customer support.
Gboard adds new languages, voice typing, new emojis & doodles
Google has upgraded their iOS keyboard extension to support voice dialing and 15 more languages.
SearchCap: Google new AdWords interface, ads by AdWords & IF functions
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New AdWords interface alpha is rolling out to more advertisersJan 31, 2017 by Ginny Marvin As Google continues to build out the new UI, more advertisers are getting access. Google launches […]
Google formally changes AdWords price extension format to swipeable cards
Price extensions are also rolling out for more languages and currencies.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Google Doodle marks Father of Microbiology’s 384th birthday
Designed by Doodler Gerben Steenks, today's Doodle pays tribute to the Dutch scientist credited with being the world's first microbiologist.
European court says linking to illegal content is copyright infringement
The facts of the present case were egregious but the law created by the court is bad for the internet.
Microsoft Translator App Comes To iOS & Android With Wearable Support
Microsoft launches a new mobile app for real-time translation to compete with Google's Google Translate app.
Google Translate App Adds 20 More Languages To The Instant Visual Translation Feature
The Google Instant Translation app gets a lot more powerful.
Google Faces Potential $19M Privacy Fine In The Netherlands
Google continues to face potential fines for failing to change its privacy policy in Europe. Since the company introduced its “simplified privacy policy” in 2012 it has faced Europe-wide criticism and the threat of fines for violating local data protection laws. Multiple government data protection authorities across Europe are cooperating in an effort to compel Google to make changes in […]
Google Logo Marks The 407th Birthday Of Rembrandt van Rijn
Google has dedicated today’s homepage to Rembrandt van Rijn, marking the Dutch painter and etcher’s 407th birthday. The Google logo includes a self portrait of the artist standing in front of a “Google” etching. With more than 40 remaining self portraits, Rembrandt was known for the images he painted of himself along with portraits of […]
Google Flight Search Takes Off Around The Globe
Google’s flight search tool had been limited to a few markets in the US. As such, it was of limited value. But last week, the company expanded flight search internationally to include 500 airports outside the US. (See postscript below below for correction.) Flight search can also be used by people in other countries — […]
Google Translate: Picture To OCR To Speech
Google Translate announced they added in integration with Google Goggles, to help with your translation needs. So when you are in a restaurant and the menu looks foreign to you, you can pull out your Google Translate app and have it search for the translation. You take a picture of the words, highlight the words […]
Google Translate For Android Literally Speaks More Languages, Through Conversation Mode
In January, Google Translate for Android gained “Conversation Mode,” a way to speak into your phone and have it speak back in a different language. Today, Google’s expanded the number of languages supported. Originally, the tool only supported English-to-Spanish translation (or vice versa). Now, Google says 14 languages in all are covered: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, […]
Think Germans Are The Most Sensitive To Privacy? Others May Be More So
Privacy is a much discussed topic and most focus seems to be privacy issues in Europe. But people have different attitudes to privacy throughout the globe with some having an intense fear of compromising their privacy or identify. How does this affect search? And where are the most privacy senstiive nations>
Official: Google’s New Travel Search OneBox
As we expected, Google officially announced the launch of their new flight onebox. The new travel onebox will show up when you search for flight related keywords with destinations. For example, [flights from new york to san francisco] or [flights from new york or [flights to new york]. They all work to five you an […]
Google Tests New Travel Search OneBox
SEOGadget noticed Google testing a new travel search OneBox interface. I suspect this is an early sign of the Google ITA integration, where Google purchased ITA, a travel software company. A typical Google travel search OneBox looks like this: The new travel OneBox offers a more detailed box of information with departing cities, airlines and […]
5 New Years Resolutions For Those Who Want To Do Business In Europe
There are many resolutions, eat less, stop smoking, win the lottery, you name it. All over the world most new years resolutions are the same, or at least similar. Most posts you read are from writers writing about their own new years resolutions. For 2011, I would like to give you some resolutions. I’ve written […]