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Google is facing a damages claim of up to €25 billion in the latest class action against it in Europe.  Two claims are being brought in the Netherlands and the U.K. over the tech giant’s alleged misuse of advertising technology, following the French Competition Authority’s 2021 finding that Google had misused ‘adtech’ to benefit ad servers it owned.  The collective actions are being brought on behalf of online publishers by a range… Source link

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Google released the fifth version of the Google product reviews update on September 20th at around 4 am ET, this one is named September 2022 product reviews update. Google told us a couple of weeks ago to expect this update, which is unusual in terms of being so soon after the most recent product reviews update, which was the July 2022 product reviews update. This is the fifth product reviews update, a search ranking algorithm update targeted at… Source link

FILE PHOTO: The logo for Google LLC is seen at the Google Store Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 17, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register NEW DELHI, Sept 20 (Reuters) – Indian online gaming platform WinZO has sued Google (GOOGL.O) to stop the tech giant from allowing real-money games for fantasy sports and rummy on its platform, saying that Google’s doing so is discriminatory, a legal filing seen by… Source link

Google announces it’s shutting down market research product Google Surveys. The service will be unavailable after November 1, and users will have another month to download historical data. Google began informing users about the impending Surveys shutdown this week, sending out emails that look like the one below: Nooo…Google Surveys is getting killed?? Say it isn’t so. pic.twitter.com/7v3dFlggJL — Sucharita Kodali (@smulpuru) September 20, 2022 A link in the email leads to a Google… Source link

Dmexco is back and while many are still trying to figure out the role of the Germany-based conference when it comes to the global circuit, ad tech’s key talking points have moved on considerably after a two-year digital hiatus. Here is Digiday’s primer on what will fuel conversations at this year’s event this week.  The last time 20,000+ ad tech professionals from around the world convened in Koelnmesse, Google was yet to confirm “the death of the third-party cookie” officially…. Source link

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Google is launching a pilot program to keep emails from political campaigns from going to users’ spam folders this week, the company told Axios. Why it matters: Gmail users may start seeing a lot more political emails in their inboxes, partly a result of Google bowing to pressure from conservatives who claimed the company marked Republican emails as spam more often than others. What’s happening: Google asked the Federal Election Commission in June if a program that would let campaigns emails… Source link

Are you planning to close your website for a day or longer? According to advice from Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller, here are five ways to prepare. Mueller shares this advice in tweets while linking to relevant Google help pages. Spoiler alert — there’s no good way to close a website temporarily. You should avoid doing it if at all possible. However, there are things you can do to keep the negative impact to a minimum. Mueller’s recommendations include: Use HTTP 503 status… Source link

Google has turned the logo on its homepage black in the United Kingdom to coincide with the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Internet users in the UK woke up to an all-black version of the Google logo to mark the Queen’s funeral on 19 September, which was attended by dignitaries from around the world. The logo, which is usually blue, red, yellow and green, was accompanied by a black ribbon along with the text “Thank you, Ma’am” as well as a link that led visitors to a webpage that… Source link