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Bing Predictions Tackles The NFL, Likes The Broncos, Colts, Packers & Seahawks

September 30, 2022 news

Having done pretty well with predictions for basketball, tennis and soccer, Bing turns its prediction engine loose on the upcoming NFL season. NFL fans in Denver, Indianapolis, Green Bay and Seattle might be happy to know that Bing’s prediction engine has slated their hometown teams as the top seeds in the AFC and NFC this coming season. Those are some of the initial prognostications as Bing sets its prediction engine loose on pro football. The playoff predictions are part of the weekly power rankings Bing plans to publish each Tuesday at…

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Google tests reporting security issue false positives in Search Console

September 29, 2022 news

This should help sites that were mistakenly removed from Google search rectify the issue sooner. Let’s say your site was flagged by Google search as having a security issue, be it malware or maybe your site appeared to be hacked. Google is now testing a feature to let you request that Google review the site and the specific security issue if you think Google mistakenly identified your site as having such a security issue. The announcement. “We’re piloting a new reporting system beginning with security issues,” Google said on Twitter. There is…

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Holiday shopping SEO: Last-minute tips and techniques for e-commerce sites

September 27, 2022 news

How to optimize the work you’ve been doing year-round and what to avoid ahead of the most profitable time of the year. This post first ran on Sept. 19, 2020 but was updated to include new information. Before the holiday shopping season approaches, online retailers should be readying and refreshing content, category and product pages to maximize search visibility as interest surges, and auditing their sites to ensure a smooth user experience. While there may only be a few weeks left before Black Friday, there is still plenty of time…

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Content API for Shopping and Google Ads API updated for country targeting

September 26, 2022 news

Google says you can opt-out if you’re concerned that your database can’t handle datafeeds without a target country. Nicole Farley on September 22, 2022 at 4:28 pm | Reading time: 3 minutes Updates to the country targeting for shopping products, with the introduction of the feedLabel field, have begun. Recent updates to the API. Last month we announced that Google was removing the country targeting requirements were being removed and replaced with a new feedLabel field. Today Google announced updates to those changes including: For Google Ads Any Google Ads account can set the feed_label field…

Google CEO Under Fire by Employees Upset at Being ‘Nickel-and-Dimed’

September 24, 2022 news

Google CEO Sundar Pichai faced the ire of Google employees over the company’s cost-saving measures. Like many companies in the tech industry, Google has been slowing hiring, cutting costs, and has left the door open to layoffs over economic fears. According to CNBC, employees are not impressed with the company’s actions and made that clear to Pichai in an all-hands meeting this week. One of the more popular questions Pichai was asked was why the company is “nickel-and-diming” employees when “Google has record profits and huge cash reserves.” The “nickel-and-diming” was a reference…

Marketing

Webinar: If the customer is always right, your tech should be too

September 23, 2022 news

Discover the emerging solutions and channels that cultivate stronger customer experiences. According to a new survey from Forrester, 56% of your marketing peers plan to increase investment in advertising/marketing solutions over the next year. Where do they plan to invest? Join this webinar to hear experts from AWS, Forrester, Merkle and Treasure Data discuss findings from the study about the state of customer experiences and the advertising and marketing technologies that influence your ability to meet customer expectations. Register today for “If the Customer is Always Right, Your Technology Should…

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Bing Maps Adds Traffic Cameras To Map

September 22, 2022 news

You can now see live traffic cameras directly on Bing Maps. Bing has announced the addition of traffic cameras to their traffic maps on Bing Maps. Bing said they have added more than 35,000 traffic cameras across 11 different countries in Bing Maps. To see them, you need to turn on the traffic layer by clicking on the traffic icon. Then zoom into an area, and if a camera is available, you will see camera(s) show up. You can toggle the cameras on or off, if you like. Here is a screen…

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Google releases September 2022 product reviews update

September 21, 2022 news

This is the fifth Google product reviews update that comes out about a month after the last update. 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…