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Choosing between pipeline and revenue focus defines how campaigns behave, how performance is judged, and how reliably PPC contributes to profit.
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Most marketers still struggle to clearly articulate or measure ROI, barely scratching the surface of what’s possible and often failing to deliver meaningful business results at scale. McKinsey Marketers love to talk about return on investment, yet the way ROI is calculated and promoted in MarTech sales cycles rarely reflects how organizations actually use these…

Google Ads published new documentation on a tool called “Website Optimizer." Now, some of you OGs may remember Website Optimizer from 2008 or so. Well, it was renamed to Google Optimize and then sunset on September 30, 2023. Google Ads may be bringing it back or making something new within Google Ads named Website Optimizer.

Google is testing using inline, hover-style links for citations in the AI Mode results. When you hover your mouse cursor over the link card, it will hover the link card sources over the answer.

Google is testing a new widget at the top of the Google Discover feed. It is called “Top Searches," and it will randomly show some of the top searches across Google Search. And guess what, when you click on them, it takes you into AI Mode, not Google Search.

Google is reportedly working on a new Gemini App user experience, which it is calling 2.0. The company is putting “huge investment" into this update of the Gemini user experience but we are not sure when this new look and experience will be released.

New research exposes how just a few hundred malicious documents can plant backdoors in AI models and distort product comparisons.
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As you know, Google finally launched custom annotations within the Google Search Console performance reports. Well, one issue we noticed is that it does not allow for adding annotations for data it does not have yet, like for today. Today, Google rolled out support for current/future dates.