Google updated the rules of Google Partners. Now they would sanction for misrepresentation. In particular, for providing false information about the company and services, and statements about the possibilities of Google products.
EU authorities accused Google, Facebook and Twitter in violation of the rights of consumers. The company received a month to the enforcement of the rules of their services into line with European legislation. Otherwise, they could face fines, writes Reuters.
YouTube announced that on 2 may 2017 to support the annotation editor will be terminated.
Google introduced a new app Family Link. With it, parents can monitor how kids use their Android device.
Stone Temple Consulting agency shared the results of a new research. It was intended to find out whether the data Google Chrome browser to identify the new URL.
Google AdWords has launched a new ad format - ad locations. About it is reported on the service's page in Google+.
Google still uses the filter Page Layout, launched in 2012. About this said the representative of the search Garry Illyes in response to a question from webmasters on Twitter.
In the Gmail app for Android appeared a function of remittances. At the moment it is only available to users in the United States.
In 2017, Google will occupy the 77.8% of search advertising market in the United States. In 2018, the company's share will reach 80%. The remaining 20% will be distributed between Microsoft, Yahoo, Yelp, Amazon, Ask and AOL. About it reported in a new eMarketer forecast.
Google added a new section to the guide for assessors. Now they will have to mark offensive content and false information in the search results. These data are then used to train the algorithms search engines to identify such content.
English-speaking users have noticed that Google is testing the display of six AdWords ads at the bottom of the SERP. In the end, the total number of ads on a page can reach 10 – to 4 above and 6 below.
Google not plans to launch a report about the poor quality pages in the Search Console. About this said the representative of the search John Mueller during a regular hangout for webmasters.
Search engine Google scholar is in the list of priority services to unlock in China. About it reports The South China Morning Post, citing a member of the ruling party and the former head of the State administration of press and print of the China, Liu Binjie.
Overseas webmasters noticed that in the report 'Analysis of search queries' in Google Search Console has no data for 9 March 2017.
Last week, the city Council of Mountain View has approved Google's plan to build a new headquarters in Silicon valley, according to Cnet.
Google Hangouts divided into two new enterprise service – Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. About this informed the head of Hangouts Scott Johnston in a blog of the company.
Google testing carousel for videos in the search results on desktops. Innovation noticed Peter Meyers from Moz.
Google improved its system of protection against robots reCAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). Now it is able to automatically distinguish users from bots without additional checks.
Google does not impose any sanctions for autoplay video ads, despite the negative attitude towards this format from users. About it told the representative of the search John Mueller on Twitter.
Later this year, the mail service Gmail will be able to install add-ons. The representatives of Google said about it at the Cloud Next conference.