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Here is a photo from outside the Google Brazil office in the city of São Paulo. There is an outdoor ping pong table surrounded by such amazing landscaping, I think (I am not a designer of any kind). This photo was recently shared on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of […]

Google Ads clarified in its speculative and experimental medical treatment policy that cell therapies and gene therapies are therapies not allowed on the Google Ad network. This includes prohibiting stem cell therapy, cellular (non-stem) therapy, gene therapy and similar forms of regenerative medicine, platelet rich plasma and others. Google said that violations of this policy

Google’s local pack is typically three local listings, but here is an example of a local pack showing ten listings. This is probably a bug and was triggered by Ramesh Singh who shared this videocast of it on Twitter. Here is a screenshot followed by his video: ⁦@JohnMu⁩ probably a bug, serp results showing 10

In December, Google told us they would move its structured data testing tool from Google’s site to the Schema.org domain. This was after it first said it will deprecate the tool, since Google only wanted to support a rich results tool. Well, now, the Schema.org markup validator is now live, in beta at validator.schema.org. Note,

Generally over the years, we’ve heard and reported on complaints about how new sites find it hard to rank above older sites. We also heard how old sites sometimes can’t make changes and adapt as faster as new sites. Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that he hears the complaints on both ends. John Mueller

Google I/O kicks off next week and it is open to all, remotely, online. I will actually be offline Monday and Tuesday of next week for a Jewish holiday and I/O starts on Tuesday, so I will miss watching some of these live. Although, I think many of the sessions were pre-recorded? Google always announces

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he chats with Eric Enge, Principal at Perficient Digital. Together they discuss how SEO agencies work and some of the tools they use for success.  Ben starts off by looking at the tech stack. You need to figure out your strategy and the tools associated

Google is once again sending some of the Google Partners electronic scooters, e-scooters. Dave Davies posted photos of the 2020 version last year and now the 2021 version is here and he posted photos of those on Twitter. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun

Google notified some local businesses that specifically had set their business address not to show to the public, did end up being shown to some searchers by accident between the dates of October 2019 through April 2021 – yes, a full 18 months. Google said it fixed the issue and service area businesses going forward

Back in 2017, Google announced that it was working with The Trust Project to help publishers use “eight trust indicators that newsrooms can add to their content.” But Google’s Danny Sullivan said that was the extent of it, and that Google does not use The Trust Project directly for how it ranks websites in its