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Less than 20 minutes ago, the whopping news broke that the European Union has fined Google $5 billion €4,34 bn over antitrust and competitive laws around Android. Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition wrote on Twitter that it is time Google stop these...

For some time now, Google advertisers have been frustrated by a lack of reporting metrics on Universal App marketing campaigns and responsive display ads. The limited data has made it difficult for these advertisers to determine which ad combinations are the most effective....

A lawsuit filed last week and a request for the FTC to enforce a consent decree both stem from the AP story about location tracking. A California resident named Napoleon Patacsil has filed a lawsuit against Google in federal court (Patacsil v. Google, Inc.) seeking class action...

Last Thursday, Google introduced a new feature to its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) users for tracking network operations between their servers in the Google Cloud. Called VPC Flow Logs, the tool logs and monitors all network flows sent from and received by the virtual machines...

Deals on hotels found in Google Search are spotlighted in the Benefits section of the new Google One app, with plans to add more promotions from Google properties. Google is rolling out its rebranded and updated paid Google Drive plans under the new name Google One. The updated...

You get an extra headline! And you get an extra headline! Oh, and you get a longer description, too. Google will start rolling out its responsive search ads to more accounts in English, French, German and Spanish starting in September. Responsive text ads can display with three...

Some Google Ads accounts have several users logging in at any given time. Now account owners can ensure every one of those users has enabled 2-Step Verification. Administrative-level users of Google Ads accounts can now implement an authentication policy for all users who have...

Google wants their searchers to take a breather with this new relaxing search result. Google has quietly added a deep breathing exercise and meditation technique to the search results. All you need to do is search for [deep breathing], [breathing exercise] and similar terms in...

The first Google Smart Displays devices, from Lenovo, hit stores Thursday. They are similar to Amazon’s Echo Show but with a number of Google services baked in, including Maps, YouTube, Calendar, Duo (a free FaceTime-like video calling service) and Photos. Users can interact with...

So Google announced the other day, as I covered at Search Engine Land, that they are keeping their “current practices regarding the AdWords API Terms and Conditions and the domain-by-domain opt-out following the expiration of the voluntary commitments.” That means,...