Publishers want Congress to stop AI crawlers from hiding
More than 300 media executives will press lawmakers to require AI bots to identify themselves and disclose why they’re scraping sites.
Topic: United States Congress
Why ad approval is not legal protection
Section 230 shields ad platforms from liability, while FTC enforcement holds advertisers strictly responsible for deceptive ad claims.
YouTube to reinstate banned channels: What it means for advertisers
The return of banned YouTube creators could reshape ad reach and placements – and pose risks for brands and marketers.
Trump gives TikTok until Dec. 16 to secure U.S. buyer
Brands and advertisers face fresh uncertainty as President Trump's executive order keeps TikTok alive in the U.S. as negotiations drag on.
TikTok’s U.S. future rests on Trump–Xi meeting this week
A deal framework signals TikTok may stay in the U.S., easing months of uncertainty for advertisers, marketers, and creators.
Is Google biased? An SEO veteran’s perspective
This deep dive uses SEO tools and data analysis to explore the claims, controversies, and facts behind political search results.
U.S. House passes bill forcing TikTok owner to divest or face nationwide ban
TikTok owner ByteDance will have six months to divest the social media platform or risk losing its 150 million U.S. users if the bill becomes law.
TikTok faces fresh calls for potential ban by U.S. Senators
New legislation could require ByteDance, TikTok's owner, to sell the app within six months or face a U.S. ban.
TikTok pilots new ad-targeting tech that offers improved data security
The platform currently faces a nationwide ban in the US if it's found guilty of violating data privacy laws.
TikTok CEO faces congress over security concerns
The US government, worried about China's manipulation, seeks to manipulate TikTok to do what it wants.
This day in search marketing history: January 19
Google's page layout algorithm, plus: Matt Cutts resigns from Google, Top Stories deduplication, mobile usability warnings and more.
How to handle unprofessional SEO treatment: tips and guidelines
Learn how to handle unprofessional treatment at various online and offline SEO events, including conferences, webinars and social media.
Marketers, Google agree that proposed ‘surveillance advertising’ ban goes too far
Legislation like this could be a game-changer for every digital marketer who advertises on Google, Facebook and other advertising platforms.
Congressional report blasts Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook as monopolistic ‘gatekeepers’ of the digital economy
Breaking up these companies will apparently be on the table.
Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook set to preview antitrust defenses before Congress
Sure to be a marathon, the hearings could be dramatic or incredibly dull.
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.
Senate bill seeks to compel tech giants to offer ‘unfiltered’ versions of their content
The 'Filter Bubble Transparency Act' would apply to websites and mobile apps.
DuckDuckGo a new ‘default search’ option for Chrome, is it time to start paying attention?
The upstart search engine's visibility has been growing.
DuckDuckGo CEO testifies: Privacy legislation isn’t ‘anti-advertising’
Gabriel Weinberg also believes that privacy legislation can make the internet more competitive.
SearchCap: Google Home is really smart, Google pronounce & Congress
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How to create landing pages that convertDec 21, 2018 by Digital Marketing Depot If you’re looking to gather leads for your business, you need to have a landing-page strategy. Like every […]
Opinion: Congress needs to do their homework on search engines
During a Dec. 11 hearing, congressional representatives questioning Google's CEO demonstrated their lack of knowledge about how search engines actually work.
SearchCap: Google’s filter bubble, live streams in search & exact match naming
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 search now supports live streams with Indexing API, structured dataDec 5, 2018 by Barry Schwartz Do you live stream video content? Here is a new way to get more exposure […]
The growing force of women in tech
While they comprise half of the U.S. workforce, women still hold less than 20 percent of all tech jobs. By comparison, women will represent 23 percent of the incoming 116th Congress. Let’s let that sink in for a moment. Congress, by the numbers, is now more progressive and less of a “boys’ club” than the […]
Trump doesn’t like Google news-search results, vows to ‘address’ the situation
He echoes long-standing complaint by conservatives that technology companies are biased against them.
Google’s political ad transparency report & library offers more accountability around election ads
Announced in May, Google's political ad transparency report and the accompanying political ad library are now available.
Facebook & Cambridge Analytica: What we know, what they knew & where that leaves us
A brief history of the many privacy disasters at the world's dominant social media platform, and what the most recent data exposure means for marketers, and other data Borg as Facebook's CEO faces Congress.
Does Cambridge Analytica have your info? Here’s how to check
Facebook is making it easy for users to find out if their data was scraped and is launching a data abuse bounty program to report app developers.
SearchCap: Google zero results gone, Subscribe with Google for news & non-English URL SEO
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 stops showing zero search results for time, calculations & conversionsMar 20, 2018 by Barry Schwartz After only a week of experimenting with showing only a single answer, Google is putting […]
Federal Election Commission proposal toughens political ads disclosure rules
The rule would bring traditional media disclosure requirements to digital ads.
CEO who forged court order to get Google to remove defamation faces prison
Contributor Chris Silver Smith tells the lamentable story of a sophisticated apparent reputation attack and a victimized company led to take desperate steps to recover.
US court orders Google not to comply with Canadian court’s order delisting search results
The US court agreed with Google that implementation of the Canadian court's ruling would violate US laws, including the right to free speech.
Paradigm shift: Has Google suspended defamation removals?
Columnist Chris Silver Smith takes a look at what could be a recent policy shift in Google's longstanding informal policy of granting court-ordered defamation removal requests.
Alice Paul Google Doodle Marks 131st Birthday Of The American Suffragist & ERA Activist
Paul played a primary role in getting the 19th Amendment through Congress and was the original force behind the Equal Rights Amendment.
Heavy-Hitter Political Ad Psychographic Targeting Round 1: Facebook
LLLLLLLLLLET’S GET READY TO RUMBLLLLLLLLLLE. Ladies and gentlemen, WELCOME to the MAIN Event – political social advertising season. From Madison Square Garden to the MGM, political advertising agencies are training for The Big Fight… for engagements and the ultimate WIN. In this Psychographic Targeting Hot House, aimClear Production Manager Lea Scudamore highlights eight fantastic […]
Veterans Day Google Doodle Honors The Men & Women Serving In Our Nation’s Armed Forces
Originally named Armistice Day to pay tribute to US veterans of World War I, the holiday was renamed in 1938 to include all US veterans.
Veteran’s Day Google Logo Honors The Men & Women Who Serve In Our Armed Forces
Today’s Google logo is in honor of Veteran’s Day, paying homage to the men and women who have served in the U.S. armed forces. Along with an illustration depicting men and women in uniform and a red, white and blue Google logo, Google has included a link on its homepage to a career recruitment site […]
Veterans Day Google Logo Commemorates Holiday With A Portrait Of A Veterans Day Parade & Float
Today’s Google Logo commemorates Veterans Day with a portrait-styled image featuring soldiers atop a red, white and blue parade float. In the painting, parade onlookers watch a Veterans Day float with a prominently displayed American flag and a collection of men in uniform. Google’s letters have been painted in red, white and blue stripes as […]
Election 2012: Searching And Researching The Presidential Debates
The final debate between U.S. presidential candidates Obama and Rommney airs tonight. Until the election next month, a lot of attention will continue to be on the presidential and vice presidential debates. Here’s an easy and free way to keyword search debate video and then immediately view the video online. In fact, all of the […]
US Senate Committee Asks Google, Yahoo & Bing To Fight Bait-And-Switch Moving Scams
The US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation has written to the major US search engines of Google, Yahoo and Bing asking them to examine how some moving services are using “bait-and-switch” tactics on customers who find them through search results. Moving Ripoffs Each search engine received the same letter, covering how a committee […]
Politwoops: A Search Engine For Deleted Tweets From Policitians
At the beginning of the year I wrote about PolitickerUSA, a free tool that allows users to quickly and easily read tweets from members of congress and other political leaders. Today, I want to point out another free service named Politwoops that launched at the end of May. Here, users can access and read tweets […]