This day in search marketing history: February 13
Google AMP stories launch, plus: unconfirmed algorithm updates, faceted navigation and infinite scroll, AdWords display URL policy and more.
Topic: European Commission
This day in search marketing history: January 10
Google launches Search Plus Your World, plus: subtopics ranking, Google Ads custom dimensions, links within widgets and more.
Google offers to split part of its ad-tech business to avoid DOJ trouble
Legal pressures are mounting and Google offers to split part of its ad-tech business to avoid DOJ trouble.
TikTok commits to updating ad policies to better align with EU rules
The social media platform has made significant improvements to safety over the last year, but they still have a long way to go.
Google offers to show ad rivals on YouTube
Several recent probes from EU regulators may push Google to forego fines in lieu of allowing rival YouTube ads
Google goes 1-1 in Europe: EU upholds $2.8B fine; UK dismisses lawsuit over alleged iPhone tracking
The rulings carry implications for other platforms currently under investigation, as well as class action-style lawsuits against big tech, respectively.
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Google drops the auction from its search choice screen
Giving in to pressure from regulators and competitors, Google’s updated screen will roll out in September and search engines will appear based on market share instead of bidding per user.
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Zero-click Google searches rose to nearly 65% in 2020
Efforts to regulate Google aren’t making a dent. And, the pandemic may have resulted in greater overall search volume, but zero-click searches may rise even further as people become more mobile.
Google’s search choice screen had virtually no effect on search market share, perhaps by design
Auction participants say the model favors ad-heavy search engines and redirects their profits to Google.
DuckDuckGo’s focus on privacy-minded users pushes it past 100 million searches in a single day
Although it’s a long way from being a Google competitor, DuckDuckGo’s business model may serve as a playbook for new search engines.
What would it take for new search engines to succeed?
Neeva and You.com seek to pick up segments of users overlooked by Google, and with shifting user preferences and increased governmental scrutiny, there might be an opportunity.
Amazon uses its data to undermine third party sellers, EU antitrust action says
The company could face penalties of up to 10% of its total revenue, which was more than $280B in 2019.
Google to launch ‘enhanced news storytelling’ project with licensed content
But aggressive government intervention in Australia threatens Google's voluntary news licensing strategy.
Top EU court blows up data transfer agreement relied on by Google, Facebook, Amazon
Privacy Shield is dead, what now for U.S. brands and marketers doing business in the European Union?
UK court to Google: Expose algorithm or withdraw key piece of defense evidence
Litigant Foundem has retained an SEO as an expert and wants him to review confidential docs Google submitted in its defense.
Yelp to Congress: Don’t investigate Google without looking at search
The reviews site wants to stop Google's "self-preferencing" in the local SERP.
New local SERP live in Europe
Branded directory buttons are being displayed above the map.
DuckDuckGo, Info.com crowd out Bing in Google’s Android search options
The auction results are in: Bing will only appear in the UK, but DuckDuckGo and Info.com will be choices in all territories.
SEO year in review 2019: Zero-click searches, BERT, local spam and more
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More EU antitrust heat for Google (and Facebook) over data collection
In a separate matter, 41 shopping comparison sites want the European Commission to further penalize Google in shopping search.
European antitrust chief says Google’s auction-based shopping remedy not working
Margrethe Vestager may require Google to make additional changes in the SERP.
Nearly 50 states’ attorneys general join in antitrust investigation of Google
Facebook is also being investigated in another multistate action lead by New York.
Google verticals, machine learning and no-click searches expected to have the biggest impacts on SEO
Survey also finds that SEOs think government investigations are least likely to impact the industry.
FTC: Breaking up Google, Facebook to restore competition on the table
We're a long way away from that, but a rhetorical Rubicon has been crossed.
Ecosia says it will boycott ‘search choice’ auction on Android in Europe
Will other European search engines also reject Google's antitrust remedy?
Google to offer mandated ‘search choice’ to EU Android users in 2020
However, use of an auction for inclusion on the choice screen has some search rivals complaining.
Google Q1 revenues $36.3 billion but miss Wall Street expectations
Mobile search and YouTube drove revenue gains, but growth of paid clicks has declined when compared with earlier quarters.
New European Google local SERPs prompt users to ‘find results on’ other sites
Google appears to be trying to prevent a formal local search antitrust complaint.
Google to offer browser, search-app choices in Android Europe set-up flow
Users will be asked to choose from among five search and browser apps in randomized order.
Google fined another $1.7 billion by EU for ‘abusive’ AdSense publisher contracts
Google has now been fined a cumulative total of roughly $9.3 billion and there's one more potential case lurking.
Yelps says Google trying to bring back ‘discredited’ shopping antitrust remedy
Company says the approach only delivers marginally better traffic to competitors' sites.
Report: Google PLA antitrust remedy turning comparison engines into agencies
Google shopping competitors now 32 percent of results in UK, Germany, France.
Report: EU antitrust unit exploring broader local search complaint against Google
The focus now moves to travel, hotels and restaurants.
Google facing fine in Russia for allegedly not purging banned websites
The fine would be just over $10,000, but Russian officials are seeking penalties of 1 percent of global revenue going forward.
SearchCap: Google zero results, European Commission complaints & TrueView
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google showing zero results again for many time, calculations & conversions search resultsNov 25, 2018 by Barry Schwartz And it is back! Google may now show no search results for queries […]
Google’s EU shopping comparison rivals say their situation is getting worse
They argue in an open letter to the European Commission that Google's auction-based remedy to antitrust claims is fundamentally flawed.
EU approves controversial copyright directive aimed at Google, Facebook, Twitter
The new rules, which require member-state approval to go into effect, amount to a kind of 'GDPR for copyright.'