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Slop antibodies: The link between AI slop, watermarking, and commodity content
From LinkedIn’s anti-slop systems to AI watermarking, platforms are building new ways to identify low-value content. Here’s what survives.
This day in search marketing history: March 2
Happy 28th birthday, Yahoo!, plus: Semrush plans IPO, click to call ads, Google's About 260 problem, Steve Ballmer yelling at SMX and more.
New updates to Google’s gambling and games policy
Advertisers must apply for and be approved by Google to run gambling ads.
PPC 2021 in review: Privacy and automation force advertisers to adapt
From the deprecation of broad match modified keywords to FLoC to RSAs becoming the default, PPC professionals dealt with a lot of change in 2021.
Google passes on 2% “Regulatory Operating Cost” for ads served in India and Italy
Google will start applying the surcharge beginning on October 1.
Google Search algorithm watching; Friday’s daily brief
Make sure not to miss the new more visual changes in Microsoft Bing Search, the new Google My Business reports and the Google Ads mobile app notifications.
Google adds familiar face as Ads Product Liaison; Wednesday’s daily brief
Plus, advice from European PPC pros on how to navigate Maryland’s new ads tax
Maryland’s ad tax is here, and advertisers should look to their European counterparts for how to deal with it
Last year, Google passed digital service taxes onto advertisers in the UK, Turkey and Austria, and it’s likely to do the same in the U.S. as well.
Facebook unfriends Australia and Maryland passes ad tax; Monday’s daily brief
Plus, Google's Search Central Live conference is right after SMX Report
Google honors Nettie Stevens, the geneticist who discovered XY chromosome
Nettie Stevens, American female geneticist, gets a Google Doodle on her 155th birthday.
Rachel Louise Carson Remembered With Google Logo On The Environmentalist’s 107th Birthday
Google is commemorating Rachel Louise Carson on its homepage today with an illustration to mark the environmentalist’s 107th birthday. The Google logo shows Carson in the wild, observing the creatures and environment she dedicated her life to preserving. Born on this date in 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, Carson was an accomplished writer, marine biologist and […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 2, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Advertising To Increase Transparency With “Quality Impact” How valuable would it be to work on improving your paid search keywords’ Quality Score? And which keywords should you focus on first? […]
Google Intros Congressional District Targeting In AdWords
Just in time for upcoming elections, Google has released an AdWords feature that lets political candidates (and anyone else, for that matter) target their campaigns by Congressional District. Given how difficult it is to pinpoint audiences within particular districts by ZIP code or municipality — and the fact that district boundaries change every 10 years […]
Hurricane Irene Swirling Around the Web
The sheer number of people potentially affected by the approaching Hurricane Irene means that the web is experiencing an incredible amount of traffic from those seeking information. Hitwise reports that searches for Hurricane Irene have increased more than 2300% since August 21. Thankfully, there are plenty of resources online where people along the heavily-populated East Coast […]
Google, Bing & Searching For The New Wikileaks Website
Looking for the Wikileaks website? Having lost one domain, and having its second site going down temporarily, it’s a challenge, even for the search engines.
Google Maps Creates New UK Town Called Argleton
Google and its UK map provider, Tele Atlas, are cleaning the egg off their faces this week over the appearance of a town called Argleton in Google Maps. It’s right there on Google Maps, and there’s even an Argleton place page with photos and more. Problem is, Argleton doesn’t exist. The Telegraph picked up the […]
Oklahoma, Where The Google Comes Sweepin’ Down The Plain
From California, Google has spread out across the great land of the United States. New York! Washington! Arizona! And now which of the fifty nifty United States is Google heading to next? Oklahoma! Below, some news of Google’s plans for the Sooner State and well as a recap of what other states it has conquered […]