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Did you know that the UN Chamber Music Society performed at the Google New York office a month before Google closed its offices due to COVID? Here is a photo from Instagram that I found of some of those performers. They wrote, “On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the achievements of […]

Here is a photo of a Google street view car that was in a car crash somewhere. This was shared on Facebook and shared by Bill Hartzer who said he found this via a Google Street View Facebook group. I wonder what the street view images from this car look like during and after the

Google’s John Mueller said when it comes to international SEO and multilingual sites, the CDN’s location does not really matter for SEO. He said on Mastodon, “When it comes to SEO, that doesn’t matter.” This was based on him being asked the following question: For a multilingual site with different local target audiences and .com

Microsoft Advertising announced a bunch of changes to its search ad platform, including the global rollout of professional service ads, bulk operations in the asset library, changes to broad match modifier and more. Some of these changes were announced earlier as a heads-up. Professional service ads was announced as a beta about a year ago

Google Search is testing a new section for “cheaper options” in the product detail overlay window. So instead of just showing related products and product specs and buying options, Google is now testing “cheaper options” for higher priced products. This was spotted by Khushal Bherwani and he posted a video and some screenshots on Twitter.

Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed that Google does look at domain name records for discovery of new domains to include in the Google Search Index. He said this at the 9:40 mark into yesterday’s Search Off The Record podcast. Gary said, “we are looking at domain records for discovery but that also just means that we

Google Ads is running a small test to help you create ads using AI. Google Bard does not power this, but it is a form of artificial intelligence designed to give you suggested ad headlines and descriptions. This was spotted by Gil Gildner and then Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liason, confirmed that this is

Google is testing having the map box automatically expand within the web search results, above or on the right side of the local pack results, when you begin to place your mouse cursor over the results. I tried several browsers to try to replicate this but I was unsuccessful. I found two examples of people

Microsoft is rolling out version 98 of Bing Chat which some of you should start seeing later today or tomorrow. This upgrade reduces the number of times Bing Chat will refuse to create something and also a reduction of disengagement. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, wrote on Twitter, “Starting to ship Prompt v98 today: