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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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PayPal Acquires Price Comparison Tool Honey For $4 Billion

PayPal has announced its acquisition of Honey Science Corporation, a price comparison platform that helps shoppers save money. Honey was founded in 2012 and provides promo codes, discounts and online coupons to customers. Customers can even add items to their list and be notified...
Posted On 17 Dec 2021
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Google search results are more volatile this year than last year, says data provider

Semrush data shows Google’s search results have been over 68% more volatile on desktop and 85% more volatile on mobile. According to new data from Semrush, the volatility in the Google search results in 2021 has been much more intense and frequent than the previous year....
Posted On 16 Dec 2021
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Video: Sarah Teach on conscious capitalism in SEO

Conscious SEO is about being conscious about all the stake holders with your content. In December I drove down to DC to interview Matt Cutts and before I sat down with Matt, I interviewed two SEOs in the DC area. The first was Sarah Teach, the Evergreen Content SEO Lead at The...
Posted On 15 Dec 2021
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5 Reasons Templates Can Skyrocket Your Productivity

If your company isn’t currently using templates for routine communications, you might want to rethink that. Whether you own a small business or you’re the manager of a Fortune 500 company, you doubtless want to improve your efficiency. Templates are a great way to ensure that...
Posted On 14 Dec 2021
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Microsoft Teams and Android 10 or Later Preventing 911 Calls

Google is warning that having Microsoft Teams installed, but not logged in on Android 10 or later can prevent 911 calls. A user on Reddit with a Pixel 3, running Android 11, reported being unable to successfully call 911 when their grandmother appeared to be having a stroke. My...
Posted On 13 Dec 2021
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Bing Mobile Updated: Improved HTML5 Features, App Search & More

Microsoft’s Bing team announced some significant changes and updates to Bing For Mobile. The core changes include better HTML5 support, better and faster image search, real-time transit and directions, iPhone app search, improvements to shopping, weather and movie search results....
Posted On 11 Dec 2021
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Google Ads ditches campaign drafts in updated experiments page

The updated experiments workflow is currently rolling out to select advertisers. A new experiments workflow is rolling out to select Google Ads accounts, according to reports from numerous PPC professionals. Tip of the hat to Dario from the Marketing O’Clock Discord channel for...
Posted On 10 Dec 2021
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Social Shorts: Snapchat’s TikTok rival is here, Facebook teams with BBB for ad reviews

The social media marketing week in review: A round up of news and announcements you may have missed. Snapchat puts the “Spotlight” on top Snaps, will pay creators Snapchat has launched Spotlight to feature the best Snaps in a new feed aimed squarely at countering rival TikTok....
Posted On 09 Dec 2021
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