Google is testing a new design of the block Top news
Users noticed that Google is testing a new design of the block "top stories". It looks like this:
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The European Union has urged IT companies to respond faster to inciting hatred
The European Commission has called on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft faster to take action against the incitement of hatred in their services, reports Reuters.
Roskomnadzor gave Google three months on the registration of legal entities in Russia
Roskomnadzor will give three month of the new year to the foreign companies that own news aggregators, on registration of Russian legal entities. In particular, this applies to Google, which to comply with new Russian laws have to change the form of presence in the Russian market. Otherwise, Supervisory authorities will be grounds for blocking news site Google in Russia. About this report "Izvestia" with reference to the statement of the official representative of supervising Department Vadim Ampelonskiy.
Pinterest updated the design of business pages
Pinterest presented a new design of the business pages. The main innovation was the addition of so-called "showcase". This is a new interactive unit, which can include up to five elements – boards or pins you can buy.
62% of companies local business in the United States buy advertising in Facebook
For according to a new report, Borrell Associates, 78% of companies local business in the United States there is a page in Facebook, and 62% of them buy ads on the social network.
VK will disable public API for working with audio
16 Dec www.vk.com will disable public API for working with audio. As reported in the official sources, the upcoming changes will not affect audioreader in the web version of the site and trusted applications, but third-party apps will not be able to access most of the methods section audio.
Google: noindex meta tag does not help to save crawlingly budget
A Google spokesperson John Mueller confirmed that the noindex meta tag does not help to save crawling budget website. The same thing, for the most part, fair to and in respect of rel=canonical.
VK to share with the community advertising profit
Social network VK is going to propose to the administrators of the communities instead of direct placements of ads the opportunity to get a share of the profits of the VK for the placement of entries in the news feed. About this in his speech at IGCONF announced development Director at VK Alexander Kruglov.
Twitter bought a startup to Yes and appointed him as the head Director for the product
Twitter bought a startup to Yes, who was involved in the development of mobile applications. About it reports ReCode.
AdWords wants to make native ads more flexible
Users have noticed that Google AdWords is working to empower native ads. So, for some accounts, you now want to add the image in two formats – portrait (of 1.91:1) and square (1:1).
Google has started to notify the Russian users about the inclusion of VAT in their accounts
Users of Runet began poluchatsya from Google that the company will include the value added tax (VAT) in accounts payable. About this report "Vedomosti", with reference to one of these letters, which refers to the inclusion of VAT in the account for the service usage file storage Google Drive.
AdWords has facilitated the modification in the lists of Customer Match
Google AdWords made it easier to control Customer Match. Now advertisers will be able to add and remove email addresses from existing lists by downloading data file. Also it will be possible to completely replace the current list in the file without creating a new list.
Google updated the tool "optimization for mobile"
Users have noticed that Google updated the tool "optimized for mobile" (Mobile-Friendly Test). It has a button for "add to Google", which can be used to send a request to rescan the page.
VK launches its own messenger
Team VK started beta testing its desktop messenger VK Messenger.
Google: the share of mobile traffic in the Runet has reached 62%
In November 2016, the share of mobile traffic in the Runet has reached 62%. This was reported by the lead engineer of the team ranking of Google Sergey Arkhangelski at the conference Optimization in 2016. The report of the specialist was devoted to the changes in mobile Google search.
Herman Klimenko has called the suit of a private person to a Facebook self-promotion
Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on issues of development of the Internet German Klimenko believes that the lawsuit is a resident of St. Petersburg with request to block work in Russia social network Facebook is purely the nature of self-promotion. About it reports the edition TASS.
Google has launched a service for creating apps App Maker
Google introduced App Maker – a new service for creating applications that focuses on corporate clients. Now the company is accepting applications for early access to the tool from organizations that use the paid version G Suite.
Gooligan virus hacked into over a million Google accounts
Specialists of the Israeli company Check Point have discovered a malware that hacked more than one million Google accounts. The number of victims continues to grow – by about 13 thousand per day.
Indicator updates in reports Search Console became clickable
Users noticed that the indicator updates to the reports, Google Search Console became clickable.
Brainlabs developed a script to fill the empty ad groups in AdWords
The member agencies of contextual advertising Brainlabs Daniel Gilbert shared a script that is designed to fill the empty ad groups in AdWords.