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New York to Ban All Sales of New Gasoline Vehicles by 2035

New York is joining California in plans to ban the sale of new gasoline vehicles by 2035. As countries and jurisdictions around the world race to combat climate change, vehicle emissions are one of the biggest targets. Electric and hybrid vehicles are already popular alternatives...
Posted On 31 Dec 2021
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Bing Promotes Top Image Searches With New Landing Page

Bing has announced a new image search landing page that contains the top image searches on Bing. The group of images highlights those top image searches with the use of images, how novel. When you click on an image from that page, you are taken to a Bing image search result. From...
Posted On 30 Dec 2021
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Google Posts open to hotels for update notices but not promotions

Hotels can now officially use Google Posts in their local listings but in a limited way. Google is now officially allowing hotels to use Google Posts, but only in a limited manner. Hotels can use Google Posts to give customers notifications about the hotel, but not for offers or...
Posted On 29 Dec 2021
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Social Shorts: Snapchat reach campaigns, Facebook attribution change, TikTok downloads can continue

The social media marketing week in review: A round up of news and announcements you may have missed. Snapchat pitches Platform Burst reach option for advertisers Snapchat is floating a new advertising offering called Platform Burst. The idea is to guarantee that “campaigns will...
Posted On 28 Dec 2021
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Advertisers will now get more data in Google Ads… sort of; Friday’s daily brief

Plus, the conundrum of in-house career progression Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered...
Posted On 27 Dec 2021
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Google issue sent Search Console redirect error notifications; Google will fix issue

You can safely ignore this notification if you received it over this past weekend. Over the weekend, an internal issue caused Google to send out Search Console notifications about redirect errors. Google confirmed those emails were sent due to an internal issue and the...
Posted On 23 Dec 2021
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Larry Ellison Touts Oracle Cloud’s Reliability in Wake of AWS Outage

Larry Ellison isn’t passing up an opportunity to take a swipe at AWS, sharing a note from a telecommunications customer touting Oracle Cloud’s reliability. AWS suffered a major outage earlier this week, impacting some of the biggest sites on the web. Coinbase, Disney+, McDonald’s...
Posted On 22 Dec 2021
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AWS Experiences Another Outage

AWS experienced another outage Wednesday morning, just days after a massive one that impacted major companies. As the leading cloud provider, AWS helps power a large portion of the web. Companies large and small rely on the platform for their websites, applications, and services....
Posted On 21 Dec 2021
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Bing Apologizes For Japan Quake Tweet

Bing has just apologized on Twitter for a tweet earlier today that many viewed as a way to gain exposure in the name of raising money for victim’s of Friday’s earthquake in Japan. The apology reads as follows: We apologize the tweet was negatively perceived. Intent was to provide...
Posted On 20 Dec 2021
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Google removes 12 structured data fields from the help documents

This may impact HowTo, QAPage and SpecialAnnouncement rich results and reporting. Google has removed 12 documented structured data fields from its help documents citing these were removed because they are “unused by Google Search and Rich Result Test doesn’t flag warnings for...
Posted On 18 Dec 2021
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