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Here is another vehicle retrofitted to go inside a Google office. This is one of those old buggy mini buses that now works as office decor and utility for the Google Brazil office. I spotted this one on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find […]

Just a PSA, Google is fully deprecating the legacy Google My Business Insights API on February 20, 2023 – this coming Monday. This is not new, most of those using the old API had most of its features deprecated now and we reported about this last year. But now the remainder of the features are

When the new Microsoft Bing AI copilot was announced, and I reported about the changes to the Bing webmaster guidelines, Glenn Gabe also picked up on some potentially problematic language in the new Bing terms of service. I am no lawyer, neither is Glenn, but if you read the terms, it says: Use of Creations.

The other week I spotted this Twitter thread where someone was able to ask Microsoft Bing AI chat what its codename is. In short, Bing AI responded that it was “Sydney.” The back-and-forth interaction is very Westworld interaction-like, which is funny. I figured I’d share the Twitter thread: This goes on and on and on,

Last night, Google Ads started to suspend and mass disapprove Google Ads and Google Merchant Center campaigns. There are numerous reports of this issue starting around 4 pm ET on Tuesday, February 14th. The spooky thing is that we saw the same issue exactly the same date and time last year – I am not

Here we go again; yet another Google search ranking algorithm update seems to have touched down on February 14th, maybe as early as February 13th, and seems to be continuing to shake things up throughout today. We previously covered unconfirmed updates on the 8th/9th and also the 4th. I am seeing an increase in chatter

Google has its share of life-size robots at its office, but here is a photo of a robot I think I have not seen before at the GooglePlex, the main Google campus in Mountain View, California. This robot looks pretty old fashion, like from the old movies. I am sure it is well-known but I

Google Ads seems to be rolling out a small but yet powerful icon in the campaigns listing where you can quickly open up the settings for the campaign without clicking through numerous screens. This was spotted first by Sophie Logan on Twitter last week who said, “My first time seeing a ‘Setting’ icon next to

Gary Illyes from Google said on Mastodon this morning that you should 301 redirect URLs when there is a “close-to 1:1 match” for that URL. We know that, but what he added was this is even true for when the “language of the content doesn’t match.” Gary wrote, “301s are great when you have at