Google Ads Sports Betting Ads In Florida No Longer Allowed

Google Ads posted an update that you a no longer to promote sports betting services or ads in Florida using the Google Ads platform. Google said this is effective as of today, November 24, 2021.

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Google AdSense Matched Content Being Shut Down On March 1, 2022

Google announced that it is shutting down the AdSense Matched content ad unit types beginning on March 1, 2022. This is due to "decreasing usage of the content promotion service" and "positive customer feedback and performance results from the ads-only Matched content ad format."

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Google Confirmed Crawling Bug But Said There Were No Negative Effects

Google's John Mueller confirmed Google had a crawling issue - specifically saying "crawling for the caches had slowed down for some sites." Google said it was fixed "a while" ago and added that "it wasn't widespread, and that there were no negative effects overall."

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Google Image Search Tests New Related Image Carousel

Google Image Search on mobile is testing a new related images carousel feature for image previews. This was spotted by Brian Freiesleben and posted on Twitter yesterday.

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Bing Finally Launches Page Insights Lightbulb Search Results Feature

After several months of testing variations of what Microsoft Bing is calling "Page insights" - it is finally live. The lightbulb and page explorer snippet tool is now live for all to play with.

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