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Google has launched the Preferred Sources top stories feature fully in the US and India, after testing it in Search Labs for a bit over six weeks. As I said then, this is a nice feature for publishers and hopefully will lead to more traffic from Google Search for some.

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Google announced it has new AI and large language models to fight invalid ad traffic or as Google calls it “IVT." Google explained they have used AI for a long time, but they had some breakthroughs that resulted in a "40% reduction in IVT stemming from deceptive or disruptive ad serving practices."

Google and Bing are busy testing changing the search results snippets title. In one case, Google is expanding the title of the search result on mouse hover. In another case, Google is testing changing the color of the title on hover. Bing is also testing title colors and moving the URL in the search snippet.

Google has removed some of the restricted countries from the list of countries not allowed to serve Dating and Companionship ads. Specifically, Google removed Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan and the UAE from the list.

Google Ads has added the gender exclusions feature for Performance Max campaigns. This was previously announced last week and is now showing up in the Google Ads interfaces for advertisers.

AI calendar that books in-thread, auto-reschedules, reduces no-shows, and syncs to CRM turning scheduling into a conversion channel. A smarter calendar assistant for B2B teams that converts website interest into demos, reduces no-shows, and syncs everything to CRM without manual work. Jeeva AI announced the general availability of its AI calendar capability, a goal-driven scheduling assistant that auto-books […]