Tag Archives: Google News

Google Ad Revenue Drops For First Time

For the first time since eMarketer began estimating ad revenue for Google, the net US digital ad revenue of the search and advertising giant will decline. Combined with continued (although depressed) growth for Facebook and Amazon, this means that their market share has also declined. According to current estimates, which factor in the global pandemic, […]

Google To Drop 3rd-Party Cookies

In a move that is causing consternation across the world, Google has announced plans to drop support for 3rd-party cookies from Chrome in 2022. Cookies have long been the backbone of internet marketing efforts, and they’re what lets advertisers follow you around with banners for sites you visited in the past. (They’re also what lets […]

20 Years Of Google

20 years ago this month, and two years after it was launched internally at Stanford University by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google was officially incorporated as a company. At first, they didn’t get much attention, being only one of a large number of competing search engines and “web portals,” but within a few months […]

Submit URLs To Google In Search Results

Getting your site indexed by Google has always been critical when it comes to appearing in the search engine results, and traditional means of doing so have usually been either waiting for Google to find it at worst, or at best, setting up a search console account (what used to be Google Webmaster Tools) and […]

Google To Alphabet To XXVI

Although it feels like Google’s corporate reorganisation and the formation of the Alphabet holding company that became the parent company of Google, (even though Google was first) happened quite recently, it’s actually been around 2 years now, much to my surprise. Now, Alphabet itself is forming a new holding company which, according to Google (it […]

Google Links Online Activity To Personal Information

In a very quiet and decidedly non-public update to its privacy policy, Google has rescinded their promise to never link their ad tracking with personally identifiable information. A recent article by propublica.org revealed that despite having insisted for years that privacy would be their number one concern when it came to advertising products, Google has […]

Local Search Update

Earlier this month Google implemented an update to their local search algorithm, which controls the “Local 3 Pack” of results that appear in the search results below a map when you search for something that is available in your area, as you can see in the example image below. Searcher Location More Important One of […]

Google Adds Fact Check Tag

As an ever increasing amounts of information are added online, establishing the veracity of that information has become an important factor for both people and corporations. As such, fact checking has become a popular trend, with multiple sites being established that carry out fact checking on various statements and claims. To facilitate this, Google announced […]

Google Unveils Smart Messaging App

Google has just unveiled its smart messaging app, Google Allo, featuring the first preview of their digital assistant in a late entry to attempts by various companies (see Apple’s Siri & Microsoft’s Cortana) to create a ore personal and intuitive way for people to interact with their devices. According to the official Google blog, the […]