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Google Bard can now answer questions about the content of YouTube videos. Bard now summarizes video footage when users enter a YouTube URL. Why we care. Expanding Bard’s capabilities could lead to greater engagement for content…

YouTube Shorts ads are being rolled out to more advertisers as the solution moves from beta to general availability. For the first time, Marketers are reporting the…

Google Search supports discussion forum and profile page structured data that allows Google to show “first-person perspectives from social media platforms, forums, and other communities” within the Google search results. Plus, Google added…

Google is planning to update its Video publisher policy on 1 April 2024. All video inventory monetized with Google ad code (“Video Inventory”) through AdSense, Ad Manager, and AdMob, in accordance with the Google Publisher Policies,…

Google is deprecating the crawl rate limiter legacy tool within Google Search Console on January 8, 2024. Google said this feature is no longer useful because Google said it has improved its “crawling logic and other tools available to…

It’s been nearly a year since Google last updated its Search Quality Rater guidelines.  Unlike previous edits to the Search Quality Guidelines, which have introduced significant, new concepts (like the new E for Experience last year),…

YouTube has admitted to intentionally creating a suboptimal experience for users employing ad blockers. Reports of a deliberate five-second delay in loading video…

Google Ads is investigating reports of an issue impacting AdMob. The affected users have said that while they are able to access AdMob, they cannot retrieve their most…

Crowd-sourced human quality raters have been the mainstay of the algorithmic evaluation process for search engines for decades. Still, a potential sea-change in research and production implementation could be on the horizon.  Recent…

Google has confirmed a bug with some of the reporting within Google Search Console. The bug impacts the experience reports, including the core web vitals, mobile usability, HTTPS, and AMP experience reports. The issue is it shows a drop…