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Google’s Office Hours Hangout featured a question about algorithm updates and whether the rankings of a negatively affected site is suppressed by a “soft penalty.” The person asking the question made reference to a soft penalty, which is a phrase that’s been around for several years but isn’t really a thing. They also make reference to suffering from a “flag” that’s been assigned to their site, which alludes to Google having marked the site in some way, as in flagged. Here is… Source link

In its latest step of the app cleanup drive, Google is folding in Assistant and Calendar reminders in its Tasks app. The company wants to make it easier to manage your tasks and reminders from any of these three apps by unifying its to-do systems. Currently, Google Tasks — which was first launched as a standalone app in 2018—  works in its own silo. You can create tasks, subtasks, and set reminders in the iOS and Android apps or through a side panel in Gmail… Source link

Google’s promotional/teaser campaign for its upcoming smartphones is continuing in full force today, with the release of a new video. That’s not out of the ordinary in itself – after all, the company has been teasing the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro since May in one form or another. But this video is a bit… different. It’s basically showing you reactions people had to seeing the Pixel 7 Pro, one would assume for the first time. That’s all fine and dandy, but while you and us can see the… Source link

Google has announced the public beta for the Display & Video 360 v2 API. Additionally, they also announced the extension of the DV360 API Developer Survey through the end of September to gather more customer feedback on v2 and the API in general. What the API does. Display & Video 360 API allows users to automate complex Display & Video 360 workflows, such as creating insertion orders and setting targeting options for individual line items. v2… Source link

Skift Take Many travel brands have been toying with financial technology, or fintech, to cater to new consumer needs brought on by the pandemic. Google’s latest revival probably won’t be a one-hit wonder. Matthew Parsons Google is bringing back its price guarantee program for flights after its life was cut short by the pandemic. The feature is just one of several significant travel product tweaks being made by the search giant, which also includes rail… Source link

Google is rolling out new features to give advertisers additional help with setting up and troubleshooting Consent Mode. A new certified partner program is also available with additional support with implementation and tech challenges. About Consent Mode. Consent Mode allows advertisers to adjust how your Google tags behave based on the consent status of your users. It also enables Google to model for gaps in conversions. The Google tags will… Source link

Google confirms the September 2022 product review update, the fifth in a series of updates targeting low-quality reviews, is now rolling out. The update begins rolling out today, September 20, and will take up to a week to roll out. Google made the announcement on Twitter while linking to the official page for search ranking updates. Google will update the page once the launch is complete. Today we released the September 2022 product reviews update for English-language product reviews…. Source link

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