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Google has added a new tab, I think it is new, a “food ordering” tab to the Google My Business menu. Some restaurant may start to see this tab showing up in their Google My Business console menu. John Smith shared this screen shot of it on Twitter and said it was new: This allows […]

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben continues Core Web Vitals week with Marcus Tober, Founder and Chief Evangelist at Searchmetrics. Together they discuss the various ways to solve Core Web Vitals companies can experience. When it comes to optimizing Core Web Vitals against your competition, Marcus suggests looking at Google. Google is already

Google announced that starting on June 2, 2021, those wanting to advertiser health insurance related products in the US will require to show certification. Ginny Marvin of Google said on Twitter this is to “help ensure a safe user experience” with the ads Google serves around health insurance. Google said with this certification, Google will

Google has recently launched a new AdSense Management API. This goes from version version 1.4 all the way jumping to version 2.0 with this update. Version 1.4 will stop working on October 12, 2021. Google also made updates to the AdSense Host API. Google has launched version 2 of the AdSense Management API. Please note

So if you search for COVID vaccination information in Google Search, Google gives you these lovely charts of how many people have been vaccinated by country, state, etc. But the organization that is providing this data is named Our World in Data and the founder, Max Roser, asked Google that if they want to use

Today is two weeks since Google began rolling out the new Google Products Reviews Update. From our early reports, this was a big update and I even posted more data on Search Engine Land about how big. I initially thought the rollout seemed to be isolated to the first few days after it launched but

Google seems to be testing launching a new local feature to let car dealerships showcase their local car and auto inventory on Google Search. This was spotted by Jim Kreinbrink and Dan Shure shared this screenshot below (click on the image to enlarge). Jim said that Google added these URL paths to their robots.txt overnight:

The Android statues outside of the Google offices at the Mountain View campus are even masked. Here is the Google Play Android statue outside one of the buildings and it has this massive blue mask. I should note, the Google dinosaur, named Stan, also is wearing a mask. This was shared on Instagram. This post

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues his discussion with Marcus Tober, Founder, and Chief Evangelist at Searchmetrics. Together they chat about specific metrics and their relation to industry benchmarks. Marcus dives into industry-specific Core Web Vital benchmarks. Marcus crawled millions of domains and noticed similarities between each industry. Google is

Here is a photo that was recently shared on Instagram from the Google office, the GooglePlex, of some folks doing the Tinikling, a traditional Philippine folk dance which originated during the Spanish colonial era. This photo was actually taken four years ago, because no one is Tinikling at Google right now during COVID. This post